Cisco has announced the opening of a Point of Presence (PoP) for cloud-based security services in Sweden to help customers protect their users, infrastructure and investments from malicious actors. This announcement is part of Cisco’s ongoing efforts to strengthen local and EU businesses with flexible security solutions and services that offer low latency, high availability and strong resilience, while also helping organizations comply with regulations regarding local data handling.
Cisco’s Security Service Edge (SSE) PoP soft-launched in November 2024. The PoP, located in the Stockholm region, is part of Cisco’s strategy to deliver high-quality cloud services in Sweden. This follows previous efforts such as the opening of a Cisco Umbrella data center in 2020.
Benefits for Swedish Businesses and the Public Sector
“Today’s opening is proof of Cisco’s commitment to rapidly expand our global footprint and provide advanced cloud-based security protections to our customers,” says Per Samuelsson, CEO of Cisco Sweden. “Many of our Swedish customers are organizations that are already far along their cloud journey and operate globally. They demand the highest possible levels of security and performance, delivered seamlessly and without complexity. A local PoP helps them achieve this. In addition, a PoP in Sweden can lower barriers for public sector organizations to adopt cloud-based security solutions.”
Cisco’s PoP will support the company’s cloud services, including the SSE solution Cisco Secure Access. Organizations will be able to combine the benefits of Cisco’s SSE PoP with the scalability of the public cloud. Cisco Secure Access helps organizations address a wide range of security challenges using modern protocols to deliver superior performance and connectivity.
Users can now securely and seamlessly access the resources and applications they need, regardless of protocol, port or application-specific solutions. As a result, customers can move away from a patchwork of disparate security products that were not designed to support today’s highly complex IT environments. With Cisco Secure Access, decisions about how users connect to the Internet, software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings and private applications—both in the cloud and in customers’ own data centers—are automated, removing complexity and helping to increase productivity.