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  • Packaging changes in Cisco Secure Client 5.1.13

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    Cisco Secure Client 5.1.13 features minor updates and bug fixes, with significant changes in its macOS packaging. The GUI client is now a separate installer choice, enhancing deployment flexibility. Mac admins can choose not to install the GUI app if unnecessary.

  • Cisco Umbrella, NXDOMAIN, and noNXDOMAIN

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    Cisco Umbrella provides DNS security for organizations. It is built on Cisco’s purchase of OpenDNS in 2015. Cloud DNS resolvers provide filtering tailored to your organization. Roaming clients are protected by a module in Cisco Secure Client. The Umbrella client captures DNS queries and forwards them to the cloud resolvers. This week, I discovered a…

  • Building custom Cisco Secure Client installers

    Cisco offers two quite different downloads of its Secure Client for macOS. The one most commonly used by Mac Admins is the “predeploy”. Cisco Secure Client is now a suite of security agents. There are now ten components installed by default when using a predeploy package from Cisco. However, it is doubtful that an organization…

  • Cisco Secure Client in January 2024

    Since the last time I wrote, Cisco Secure Client continues to evolve. Here’s a survey of important changes since 5.0.02075 that affect Mac Admins. New modules Cisco has added three new modules to Secure Client: Name Installer choice identifier New in ThousandEyes choice_thousandeyes 5.0.05040 Duo choice_duo 5.1.0.136 Zero Trust Access choice_zta 5.1.0.136 ThousandEyes installs components…

  • User notifications for Cisco Secure Client migrations

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    In my last post I considered the changes in Cisco Secure Client 5. In its default configuration, AnyConnect/Secure Client is a user-facing application. As a VPN client, it’s an important part of our remote and hybrid work environments. While the process of logging onto VPN with Secure Client is unchanged from AnyConnect, the name and…

  • Migrating to Cisco Secure Client 5

    Cisco has announced the end-of-life for Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4 as March 31, 2024. Over the next year, customers should move to its replacement: Cisco Secure Client 5. While Cisco Secure Client 5 will upgrade AnyConnect 4.x in-place, this action is more of a migration than an in-place upgrade because so many of…