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ORDR and Cisco Meraki Solution Brief

SOLUTION BRIEF

ORDR and Cisco Meraki Integration

With digital transformation and adoption of hybrid business models, there has been an explosive growth of assets—devices, users, applications, SaaS and cloud workloads—introducing complexity with asset management and significantly expanding the attack surface. Security teams are struggling with the challenge of gaining visibility into their network.

The ORDR and Cisco Meraki solution is an agentless, cloud-based solution that delivers automated asset inventory, surfaces coverage gaps and missing security controls, and prioritizes risks and vulnerabilities. Additionally, ORDR offers advanced device security features tailored for mission-critical devices, providing insights into device utilization, identifying active threats, and enabling automated actions to stop attacks.

Solution Benefits

Get up-to-date, automated asset inventory: Discover all assets across enterprise branches, small office/home office (SOHO) setups, and VPN connections, including devices (IT, IoT, IoMT, OT), cloud, SaaS, applications, and users, without causing any network disruption. ORDR utilizes API data collection and our proprietary Discovery Engine, which includes deduplication and correlation, to eliminate noise from duplicate assets.

Improve security hygiene: With deep device context—make, model, OS, serial number, connectivity, utilization and more—ORDR automatically surfaces top risks. This ensures teams know when assets are missing critical security controls, have out of date software, when misconfigurations create security gaps, and when known vulnerabilities exist.

Automate and simplify Zero Trust: Improve security by gaining insights to guide Cisco ISE/SDA policy creation, enforce segmentation controls, and align connected devices with a zero-trust security architecture. Accelerate Cisco Zero Trust initiatives with seamless integration alongside Cisco Enterprise Networking.

How it Works

ORDR integrates with Cisco Meraki in less than five minutes and addresses the challenges of securing connected assets across distributed networks and branch offices. ORDR passively discovers all assets across distributed data sources, including analyzing data from Cisco Meraki cloud data, and then correlates and deduplicates data from multiple sources to provide an accurate asset inventory. Leveraging AI/ML technology for asset classification, ORDR delivers high-fidelity asset context and data, while also pinpointing coverage gaps and missing security controls, and prioritizing risks and vulnerabilities. Additionally, ORDR offers advanced device security features tailored for mission-critical devices, providing insights into device utilization, identifying active threats, and enabling automated actions to stop attacks.

ORDR Products for Complete Asset Visibility, Enhanced Security, and Simplified Zero Trust with Cisco Meraki

The ORDR AI Asset Intelligence Platform is designed to be modular, enabling a building block approach to address your cybersecurity journey—from asset visibility all the way to Zero Trust. ORDR solves your most significant asset management challenges with our ORDR AI CAASM+ and Protect products.

ORDR AI CAASM+

Provides complete visibility and attack surface management for all cyber assets. By integrating Cisco Meraki devices with ORDR’s proprietary asset discovery methods, you can automate asset discovery without any disruption to your assets. ORDR’s discovery methodology combines 180+ API integrations with the ORDR Discovery engine, alongside AI/ML classification, to eliminate blind spots and provide automated asset inventory, including devices (IT, IoT, IoMT, OT), users, applications, SaaS and cloud.

  • Get accurate asset inventory
  • See granular asset details, including make, model, OS, serial number, connectivity, utilization and more
  • Continuously monitor for security controls gaps and compliance issues
  • Establish end-to-end vulnerability management and prioritize remediation based on customizable risk scores
  • Streamline and automate remediation workflows by creating tickets with ITSM, SIEM, and SOC
  • Generate reports that can be customized to meet compliance standards such as NIST, CIS Controls, Cyber Essentials, DSP Toolkit, CMMC, SOC2, PCI-DSS, cloud compliance, and more

ORDR AI Protect

Protect your IT, IoT, OT, IoMT with advanced threat detection, deep behavioral intelligence and segmentation.

  • Assess your attack surface with customizable risk scoring
  • Identify vulnerable devices based on passive and active data analysis by combining Cisco Meraki device details with granular insights from ORDR including network activity for each device
  • Eliminate blind spots with complete N/S and E/W traffic visibility
  • Uncover real-time threats with traffic analysis and threat insights
  • Leverage ORDR device insights to improve security that informs Cisco ISE/SDA policy creation, enforce segmentation controls, and align connected devices with your zero-trust security architecture
  • Meet compliance with device communication and activity tracking
  • Understand the retrospective impact of every new IoC detected

For assistance with your asset visibility and security needs, visit ordr.net for more information or contact us at info@ordr.net.

Frequently asked questions
How can we achieve device visibility across Cisco Meraki networks without deploying agents?
ORDR's agentless technology discovers and inventories all connected devices across your Meraki-managed networks in real-time without requiring agent installation. This approach eliminates deployment complexity while maintaining complete visibility into IoT, OT, and IoMT devices across your infrastructure.
What security gaps does this solution help identify for Zero Trust implementation?
The ORDR and Cisco Meraki integration identifies all connected devices and prioritizes security risks automatically, enabling you to implement Zero Trust architecture by mapping your entire device ecosystem and closing visibility blind spots. This reveals gaps in device segmentation, authentication, and compliance posture that traditional tools miss.
Can we implement this without disrupting our existing network operations?
Yes. ORDR's agentless approach integrates with Cisco Meraki without requiring network changes or agent deployment, ensuring zero operational disruption. The solution operates passively across your network to deliver real-time visibility and automated risk workflows while your infrastructure continues running normally.

This resource is published by ORDR, the connected asset security company. ORDR delivers AI-powered visibility, risk assessment, and automated protection for IoT, OT, and IoMT devices across healthcare, manufacturing, government, and financial environments. Browse all resources →

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