Overview
Cisco Multicloud Defense
Cisco Multicloud Defense is the industry first solution that integrates comprehensive network security with multi-cloud networking. This software as a service (SaaS) multicloud network security solution provides highly scalable, agile, and robust security for hybrid and multicloud environments. It uses a common principle in public clouds and software-defined networking (SDN) that decouples the control and data plane, translating to two solution components: the Multicloud Defense Controller for management and the Multicloud Defense Gateway(s) for enforcement.
Customers can quickly onboard their cloud accounts to gain deep visibility into their environments and protect them with a distributed and/or centralized security architecture. This solution enables organizations to build unified security policies for hybrid and multicloud infrastructure where the policy (per app, as opposed to per enforcement point) is created once and applied to the various enforcement points (Multicloud Defense Gateways) running in different regions and cloud infrastructures. These controls are enforced on gateways that live inside the customers cloud account.
Gain complete protection from ground to cloud by combining Cisco Multicloud Defense and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (formerly FTDv):
- Extend Secure Firewall to public cloud environments natively with automatic deployment, scaling, healing, networking, and upgrades of enforcement points
- Save time, mitigate risk, and keep operations in-house with secure site-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud connectivity
- Simplify policy management across hybrid and multicloud environments with object sharing within Cisco Security Cloud Control
Highlights
- Reduce risk with deep visibility and control: Create, enforce, and update policies across all your clouds from one place; continuous asset discovery provides insights into network behavior to strategically place security controls.
- Achieve consistent multi-directional protection: Stop inbound threats, block command and control, data exfiltration, and prevent lateral movement with a single security policy that scales across environments.
- Drive efficiency with automation and orchestration: Reduce security complexity with infrastructure as code (IaC) support to automatically deploy, network, scale, and heal enforcement points.
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