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Cisco Cyber Vision Integration

Assess Cisco Cyber Vision integration, checking sensor support, deployment impact and how network visibility findings reach your security team.

Cisco Partner since 2009 Projects & ongoing support

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Your network. Properly considered.Design · Implementation · Support
1,000+

Devices supported
across the UK

20+

Client locations
supported

Nearly 8 Tbps

Traffic handled
at peak time

3 min

Average
response time

Average response is not a resolution time or a contractual guarantee. Support scope and response commitments are agreed for each engagement.

Cisco Cyber Vision integration helps teams see industrial devices and the traffic between them. We check where to collect that data and what the supported Cisco setup can show. The plan also names who will review findings and act on them. Work is agreed with operational owners to protect the processes that depend on the network.

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Cisco-focused engineering

Design around the platform, traffic and failure behaviour you actually operate.

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Change with evidence

Use pre-checks, acceptance criteria and a documented route back.

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Operational handover

Keep the configuration, diagrams and responsibilities understandable after delivery.

Agree what the visibility is for

An asset-inventory project has different acceptance criteria from a threat-monitoring rollout or a segmentation assessment. We establish which decisions the customer expects Cyber Vision to support and who will use the resulting information. Operations, IT and security teams may need different views of the same device or communication path.

We also identify boundaries. Network visibility does not on its own establish the safety state of a machine, prove a vulnerability is exploitable or replace the equipment supplier’s records. The project should explain which observations the platform can provide and where further investigation by an authorised specialist remains necessary.

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01Fibre, switching and the physical path behind the service.
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Review the supported sensor architecture

Cyber Vision uses sensors and a management platform to collect and interpret relevant industrial network information. Deployment options and supported hosting devices vary by release. We check the customer’s switch or router models, available resources, software, licensing and the approved method for deploying sensors before recommending an architecture.

Sensor placement determines what can be seen. Traffic that never reaches an observation point cannot be assumed to appear in the inventory. We map the operational segments, expected flows and collection paths, then record coverage gaps. This is particularly important where local machine traffic remains within an access switch or where encrypted communications limit interpretation.

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Separate passive observation from active discovery

Passive observation and active discovery are different activities with different implications. We set out which methods are proposed for each segment and get approval before enabling anything that sends requests to operational devices. Descriptions of a product feature do not remove the need to assess the particular equipment and process.

A pilot compares the devices and traffic seen with the site’s known records. Owners can then explain unexpected results. An unknown device is not necessarily hostile, and a missing one is not necessarily offline. Some equipment sends traffic only during a production cycle or a rare maintenance task. Those patterns need to be understood.

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03Network engineering for operational and industrial environments.

Protect the collection and administration paths

The setup needs management addresses, a shared time source, certificates, access rules and links between its parts. We record the exact traffic that must pass. We do not grant broad access from industrial network segments to management systems. The visibility work must preserve the boundaries that were put in place to separate them.

Administrative roles should reflect who can view data, change settings and manage sensors. Logs and exported inventories may contain sensitive information about production assets, network design and operating patterns. We agree access, retention and transfer arrangements with the customer instead of treating this information as ordinary public technical documentation.

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04Network infrastructure designed around the workloads it carries.

Make findings useful to existing teams

Integration may include an agreed security-monitoring or incident-management workflow where the chosen platform supports it. We set out what information is sent, which events warrant attention and who owns the response. Sending every observation to a central queue without context can make important changes harder to recognise.

We also establish how an asset or communication is classified as expected. Equipment owners should be able to explain legitimate maintenance activity and changes to production schedules. The aim is a usable baseline with a review process, not a frozen list that becomes inaccurate as soon as the first approved change occurs.

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05The office network: switching, uplinks and structured cabling.

Use visibility to inform, not bypass, change control

Cyber Vision findings can help identify candidate boundaries for industrial network segmentation. They should be reviewed alongside supplier needs and evidence from the live network before enforcement changes are made. A communication observed once may be unnecessary, while a rarely observed recovery flow may be essential.

We keep detection, investigation and enforcement duties distinct. An alert does not authorise an engineer to disconnect a controller or apply a restrictive rule without considering the process consequences. Any automated response must be separately scoped, supported and approved. It is not silently included in a visibility rollout.

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Validate coverage and hand over ownership

Acceptance checks can include sensor health, collection reachability, representative asset discovery, time accuracy, role permissions and the delivery of agreed events. We document which segments and operating conditions were observed and which remain outside coverage. That evidence is more useful than a claim that the entire plant is now visible.

MCI can assess a current Cyber Vision rollout or plan a new integration with your operational and security teams. The handover provides component records, coverage boundaries, approved settings and an escalation process, giving your team a defensible basis for using the information after installation.

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What does your network need next?

Tell us what you are planning, changing or trying to improve. We will help define a practical next step and the engineering scope.

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