Cisco Secure Workload is a cloud and data security solution that offers a zero-trust policy of keeping an organization’s application workloads safe and secure throughout the entire on-premise and cloud data center ecosystems.
Cisco Secure Workload will consistently provide protection by discovering workload process anomalies, stopping threats immediately, minimizing the risk threat surface, and aborting any lateral movement.
Today’s ecosystems are very elastic, and in the application-focused dynamic of today’s aggressive marketplace, Cisco Secure Workload delivers a robust security solution that works effectively with today’s most popular applications. The solution uniquely surrounds each and every workload to ensure organizations are able to keep their data, network, and applications safe and secure at all times. Cisco Secure Workload ensures that enterprise organizations can maintain secure applications by consistently building firewalls around every workload level throughout the entire ecosystem. The solution can manage applications that are deployed on containers, virtual machines, or bare-metal servers.
Cisco Secure workload is able to meet an organization's busy needs and offers flexible options such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premises options. Using the Secure Workload SaaS options, users receive all the benefits of Cisco Secure Workload protection without the hassle of having to deploy and maintain the platform on premises. Users are responsible for acquiring the necessary software licensing and deploying software agents. Using SaaS, Secure Workload runs in the cloud and is operated and maintained by Cisco. This option offers the ability to scale easily and is a popular choice for SaaS-first and SaaS-only clients. Many organizations find they get the best TCO and achieve the best productivity and profitability using the SaaS options.
When choosing on-premises options, organizations choose between hardware-based appliance models (large or small form factors). Platform selection is dependent on scalability goals, the desired fidelity level of flow telemetry, and the actual number of workloads. When a user chooses to configure Cisco Secure Workload for a conversation-only flow telemetry for all workloads, each platform has the capability to scale up vertically twice the default platform scale. Additionally, with Secure Workload, it is possible for the platform to be scaled horizontally in order to satisfy the demands of extra large widely distributed enterprise environments using federation capabilities.
Cisco Secure Workload also provides a robust disaster recovery (DR) tool, which helps to make it a complete, comprehensive solution. The DR allows for continuous restore and backup capabilities that enable users to quickly remediate operations and data to a standby cluster in the event of a drastic failure or disaster.
Reviews from Real Users
“The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network. Other valuable features include vast support for annotations, flexible user applications, machine learning, automatic classification, and hierarchical policies.” - CTO at a tech vendor
Lacework is a cloud security platform whose Polygraph Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so customers can innovate with speed and safety. Lacework is the only security platform that can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. As a breach detection and investigation tool, Lacework provides information on when and how a breach happened, including the users, machines, and applications involved in the breach. By using machine learning and behavioral analytics, the solution can automatically learn what's normal for your environment and reveal any abnormal behavior. In addition, Lacework gives you continuous visibility to find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malicious activity across your cloud environment.
Lacework Features
Lacework has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:
- Dashboards
- Reports
- Workflow management
- Administration console
- Governance
- Policy enforcement
- Auditing
- Access control
- Workflow management
- Compliance monitoring
- Anomaly detection
- Data loss prevention
- Cloud gap analytics
- Host compliance
Lacework Benefits
There are many benefits to implementing Lacework. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:
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Security visibility: Get deep observability into your cloud accounts, workloads, and microservices to give you tighter security control.
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Threat detection: By using Lacework, your organization can identify common security events that target your cloud servers, containers, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) accounts so you can take action on them quickly.
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Flexible deployment: With Lacework, you have the option to deploy the way you prefer - either agent or agentless - which provides the visibility needed to have maximum security for cloud accounts and systems. Because Lacework offers an easy-to-deploy layered approach, you gain quick time to value.
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Configuration compliance: With the Lacework solution, you can easily spot IaaS account configurations that are non-compliant and identify opportunities to apply security best practices.
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Synced teams: Lacework allows your teams to operate smarter and bridge the gap between security, Dev, and Ops regardless of your team's size or experience level.
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Gain meaningful security insights: Lacework provides meaningful security insights, alerting you of issues before they reach production from your existing workflows. This way you can build apps quickly and confidently.
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Increased revenue streams: Because the solution has built-in security from the first line of code early on, it helps users unlock higher revenue streams.
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Helps avoid development delays: The Lacework solution helps you better prioritize security fixes by making security information accessible to DevOps and security teams for earlier risk mitigation that speeds innovation.
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Increased productivity: Lacework provides alerts with all the context you need and eliminates data silos and costly investigations, enabling you to boost productivity.
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Correlate and contextualize behaviors: Lacework can take attributes and data points from your unique environment and correlate them together into behaviors.
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Simplified cloud security posture and compliance: With the Lacework platform, you can get comprehensive visibility and continuous tracking to reduce risks and meet compliance requirements so you can improve your bottom line.
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Address vulnerabilities before it is too late: Lacework enables you to limit your attack surface so you can address the riskiest vulnerabilities early in the development cycle.
