Mr. Cook said the main goal would be to support businesses that use products from both companies. In a company blog post published the same day, Cisco Security Vice President David Ulevitch wrote Apple and Cisco are “collaborating with insurance industry heavyweights … to offer more robust policies to our customers.”
“We will do this by enabling continuous security monitoring and a measurable reference architecture that includes technologies from Apple and Cisco,” Mr. Ulevitch wrote. This service would enable insurers to ensure security systems are appropriately deployed, according to Reuters.
“The thinking we share here is that if your enterprise or company is using Cisco and Apple, the combination of these should make that [cybersecurity] insurance cost significantly less,” Mr. Cook said at the Cisco event, as reported by Reuters.
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