Read how Marriott has rapidly deployed Cisco DNS-layer security across nearly 5,000 properties to advance human rights.
For over 96 years, Marriott International, the world's largest hospitality company, has been Putting People First.
Grounded in its people-first culture, Marriott has taken the lead in the fight against some of the industry's highest-risk and most pressing issues, including human trafficking and child exploitation.
One form of exploitation is online child sexual abuse.
As reports of child sexual abuse materials reached a record high in 2023, it is more important than ever to expand protections for children online.
Recognizing that hotels can become unwilling venues for individuals to access CSAM, Abbe Horswill, Director of Human Rights and Social Impact at Marriott, led the charge in exploring how the company could make a material impact to protect children online.
Horswill partnered closely with Marriott's IT team to evaluate security solutions that could help.
When the social impact and IT teams at Marriott were evaluating security solutions to block access to malicious websites, they prioritized ease of deployment, scalability and optimizing the guest network experience.
After conducting a pilot, Cisco Umbrella DNS-layer security emerged with differentiated efficacy, performance, and manageability for Marriott.
Let's take a closer look at the top three reasons why Marriott chose Umbrella's cloud-delivered DNS-layer security, which is part of our Cisco Security Service Edge product family, to block access to child exploitation materials.
Ability to stop threats earlier with DNS-layer security: It's easily one of the quickest, most effective ways for organizations to improve their security stack.
Domain Name System security uses the internet's infrastructure to block malicious and unwanted domains before a connection is ever established.
Umbrella's threat intelligence harnesses the power of Cisco Talos, the world's largest non-governmental threat intelligence organization, so you can better detect and anticipate attacks.
Marriott has deployed Cisco DNS-layer security to nearly 5,000 properties throughout the U.S. and Canada, with plans to expand globally this year.
Marriott relies on DNS-layer security to secure guest Wi-Fi access and block access to the websites on the Internet Watch Foundation list.
Since deploying DNS-layer security in February 2023, thousands of attempts to access CSAM have been blocked.
As an industry leader in the fight to protect children online, Marriott has actively shared lessons learned from the initiative with other hospitality companies to inspire collective action against online child exploitation.
Marriott and Cisco want other organizations to join them in moving the needle to advance human rights.
I encourage you to learn more about this inspiring story by checking out the full Marriott case study, which includes a video interview with Abbe Horswill.
You can also try Cisco DNS-layer security for yourself with our free, 14-day trial.
This Cyber News was published on umbrella.cisco.com. Publication date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:43:05 +0000