Simplify and Scale Security With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall

Modern enterprises rely on hybrid cloud environments to power their applications with agility and scale. However, as businesses continue to expand their hybrid footprint, they face challenges balancing security with the operational needs of the business. As threats evolve, security needs to scale with the business. It needs to become an enabler rather than a blocker. This means having the ability to easily add new security controls and protect existing investments, while minimizing overhead and management.

Cisco solves these challenges with Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall. It is a distributed security fabric with unified management, purpose built to secure major traffic boundaries, protect business and AI-enabled applications, and ensure that users and devices can only access specifically permitted resources.

Confidently scale across environments

Firewalls are foundational to network security, on-premises and in the cloud. For on-premises data center and branch locations, organizations typically deploy physical or virtual firewalls at key boundaries, or zones for macro-segmentation. However, in cloud environments the very flexibility and agility that provides tremendous benefits for business becomes an operational challenge for security. Traditionally, network security teams will manually deploy, configure, and manage the lifecycle of their cloud firewalls – for each instance and each public cloud provider. But this approach often leads to operational inefficiencies, limited scalability, requirements for dedicated cloud resources, and increased risk of misconfigurations.

Cisco innovations effectively address these issues by combining the robust capabilities of Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual with the intuitive, cloud-agnostic management plane of Cisco Multicloud Defense. Our customers can now seamlessly extend Secure Firewall to the cloud – natively – and leverage cloud-native orchestration and automation for deployment, scaling, and healing across the major public cloud providers from one interface. The ability to rapidly scale improves security and business agility, while reducing the overhead associated with manual tasks and training.

Intelligent centralized management

The connective tissue for Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall is Cisco Security Cloud Control, an AI-native management system that unifies the administration of on-premises and cloud-based firewalls. Security Cloud Control simplifies security operations across hybrid environments by consolidating policy creation and enforcement into one cohesive interface. The Cisco AI Assistant enhances productivity, while AIOps delivers actionable insights for optimizing policy configurations, refining rule sets, and providing recommendations for routine tasks. The result is a flexible approach to security that leverages different enforcement points and diverse deployment models at scale to keep up with the speed of business.

A simpler, more flexible way to achieve outcomes

The Cisco Cloud Protection Suite marries simplicity and flexibility for easy adoption of core hybrid mesh firewall capabilities. Customers can start anywhere and continuously add the security outcomes they desire without having to rip and replace existing infrastructure.

The suite has two entry options, Essentials Gateway and Essentials Segmentation which can be leveraged independently or combined depending on business requirements. Essentials Gateway delivers advanced threat protection and robust macro-segmentation capabilities. Essentials Segmentation provides course to granular segmentation for any application, on any form factor, in any environment. It supports a wide range of use cases, from traditional microsegmentation and segmentation in Kubernetes environments to policy automation based on application dependencies and behavior.

Security that evolves with your needs

Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall is redefining network security. We are delivering innovative solutions that ensure businesses can secure their on-premises and cloud infrastructure effectively while reducing manual overhead and improving agility. Our unified management simplifies operation, enhances security, and reduces labor-intensive tasks. And we are changing the way security is adopted and consumed, with a flexible licensing model that enables our customers to more easily achieve their outcomes now, and leverage solution innovations at their own pace as business needs evolve.

Next steps

Ready to take your cloud security to the next level? Check out Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Cloud Protection Suite today and discover how it can help you protect your hybrid environment.

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