microsegmentation

Streamline Regulation Mandates With NIST CSF and Secure Workload

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Streamline Regulation Mandates With NIST CSF and Secure Workload

Regulations are often a contentious topic. While some argue they hinder innovation by introducing excessive bureaucracy, others contend that the absence of clear rules can lead to unquantified risks with wide-reaching consequences—from consumers and organizations to entire markets. However, there are moments when both sides of the debate align—and cybersecurity is one of those cases. But you may wonder, why cybersecurity? What is happening in this space that creates the required synergies? The answer is…

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GenAI to Advanced Microsegmentation: Secure Workload 3.10 Has It All!

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GenAI to Advanced Microsegmentation: Secure Workload 3.10 Has It All!

In recent years, cyberattacks have become more sophisticated and pervasive, easily outpacing traditional security measures like perimeter firewalls. This shift has highlighted the critical need for advanced security strategies. Microsegmentation has emerged as a game-changing approach, enabling robust protection across customers’ increasingly complex networks, which now span data centers, branch offices, remote campuses and public clouds. The platform for microsegmentation has taken a significant leap forward with the launch of its 3.10 release earlier this…

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The Customer Adoption Journey of Cisco Secure Workload

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The Customer Adoption Journey of Cisco Secure Workload

In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, securing workloads across diverse environments is critical for organizations of all sizes. Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) provides end-to-end visibility, microsegmentation and advanced security capabilities for workloads deployed across data centers and cloud environments. This blog post explores the customer adoption journey of Cisco Secure Workload, highlighting key stages and best practices for successful implementation. Road to microsegmentation Awareness: Identifying the need The adoption journey typically begins with the…

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Cisco Secure Workload: Leading in Segmentation Maturity

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Cisco Secure Workload: Leading in Segmentation Maturity

As cyber threats evolve, defending workloads in today’s multi-cloud environments requires more than traditional security. Attackers are no longer simply at the perimeter; they may already be inside, waiting to exploit vulnerabilities. This reality demands a shift from just keeping threats out to minimizing their impact when they breach. Cisco Secure Workload is at the forefront of this shift, offering solutions to help organizations reach segmentation maturity.  What is segmentation maturity?  Segmentation maturity is about…

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Business Leader’s Guide for a Successful Microsegmentation Project

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Business Leader’s Guide for a Successful Microsegmentation Project

Not too long ago, during an executive briefing, I was asked a thought-provoking question by the CISO of a large airline in the US. He asked, “Brijesh, microsegmentation solutions have existed for a decade. Based on your experience, can you tell me why so many microsegmentation projects fail, and why it is so difficult to achieve microsegmentation across hybrid IT environments?” His question resonated deeply with me because it highlights a challenge many organizations face….

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Forrester Named Cisco a Leader in the 2024 Microsegmentation Wave

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Forrester Named Cisco a Leader in the 2024 Microsegmentation Wave

After a rigorous evaluation of 11 microsegmentation vendors, Cisco was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegementation Solutions, Q3 2024 report. We are incredibly excited to receive this recognition, achieving the highest scores possible in 12 of the 23 evaluated criteria — defined as superior relative to others in this evaluation — including network-based enforcement, support for DevSecOps and roadmap.   In its vendor profile of Cisco, Forrester comments that we take a “more realistic,…

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Building a Resilient Network and Workload Security Architecture from the Ground Up

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Building a Resilient Network and Workload Security Architecture from the Ground Up

Building network and workload security architectures can be a daunting task. It involves not only choosing the right solution with the appropriate set of capabilities, but also ensuring that the solutions offer the right level of resilience. Resilience is often considered a network function, where the network must be robust enough to handle failures and offer alternate paths for transmitting and receiving data. However, resilience at the endpoint or workload level is frequently overlooked. As…

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Cisco and Nvidia: Redefining Workload Security

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Cisco and Nvidia: Redefining Workload Security

There has been an exponential increase in breaches within enterprises despite the carefully constructed and controlled perimeters that exist around applications and data. Once an attacker can access the network, it becomes an “all you can eat” buffet as they move laterally around the environment, taking control, and either exfiltrating sensitive data, or locking it up with ransomware. Enterprises traditionally use two approaches to mitigate these risks: implementing intrusion detection solutions and defining micro-perimeters around…

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Cisco Secure Workload 3.9 Delivers Stronger Security and Greater Operational Efficiency

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Cisco Secure Workload 3.9 Delivers Stronger Security and Greater Operational Efficiency

The proliferation of applications across hybrid and multicloud environments continues at a blistering pace. For the most part, there is no fixed perimeter, applications and environments are woven together across datacenters and public cloud providers. The attack surface has expanded. Organizations struggle with a lack of visibility, and vulnerabilities are a constant issue for application and security teams alike. In some cases, the vulnerability is known and flagged, but there is no patch available, and…

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