Cisco Multicloud Defense

We use 1000 plus Cisco Multicloud Defense gateways in our environment. This product solved a lot of problems we had with the previous product. Few examples are limitations on automating the gateway deployment, Policy push Vs Policy pull, a lot of time spent on upgrades. This Product solved all these problems.

It is well suited for Cloud environments and may be not for the Data center.

Cisco Multicloud Defense has been a great product. It has helped us keep eyes on our network activity. It helps us track our local machines, servers and even remote devices. It helps us block inbound attacks, laterlam movement, and even data exfiltration. Cisco Multicloud Defense is a great SaaS product.

Cisco Multicloud Defense has been a fantastic product thus far. We have just begun to use it so I cannot give it 10 out of 10 just yet. I would more than likely recommend Cisco Multicloud Defense to another colleague if they are in the market for a product like this. The dashboard of Cisco Multicloud Defense has been very intuitive.

We are an MSP offering Cisco and Palo Alto products and solutions. We use Cisco Multicloud Defense in our offering to secure our customer's cloud environments. Cisco Multicloud Defense is a next-generation cloud native security solution that utilizes both APIs and proprietary gateways to secure cloud environments in a manageable and scalable way. Cisco Multicloud Defense takes care of keeping the gateways up2date, enables redundancy and scales automatically with the customer's cloud environments.

If you are mainly Cloud focuses (AWS, GCP or Azure) Cisco Multicloud Defense is a cloud native way to secure your workloads. If you are still mainly on private cloud it is less suitable and we would advise you to use a virtual firewall solution.

In our organization we utilize multiple different cloud providers. With Cisco Multicloud Defense we have the ability to break down our security needs and implement protection across all of our public and private cloud infrastructure. With Cisco Multicloud Defense we are able to segment and allow specific types of traffic to flow while bocking traffic we do not want.

Any connection to a cloud platform would benefit from Cisco Multicloud Defense. The dynamic security policies that you can create based on where the connections are coming from and not something that can be changed, for example, an IP address, makes the solution very adaptable. Classification of risky traffic and the destination of the flow is very intriguing. Even just knowing the flow of traffic that is deemed benign would provide useful insight to businesses to determine where their platforms and applications are being used.

My company uses this as a gateway to the cloud environment. The key for us is a single panel which shows how the full environment (all clouds environments) is behaving - all the details related to health status and data transfer. The key was the data transfer in the cloud as we can see exactly what is leaving our company and if we want it to leave or should it be blocked. Visualisation of all environments in the cloud and how data flows also help to identify each hop of data flow.

The sell key was for my company the monitoring all outgoing data and between each cloud provider which we use from all departments which keeps their data in a cloud environment. We could apply specific rules for monitoring and DPL on all traffic, which was the key feature that we were missing in the cloud solution. Also, they provide security features like intrusion prevention, antimalware, and full-path URL filtering, which are nice to have. Applying all at the start can be really time consuming but for the time we spent and how the solution help us to prevent data leave our company it was for sure worth it.

We have a considerable cloud environment that we run most of our networking and services from and we utilize Cisco Multicloud Defense to secure and monitor all of the above. It is helping us manage our cloud inventory more effectively, and closing knowledge gaps in our security footprint, to give us an overall better posture.

For WAF functionality and delivery of websites, It's very well suited for traditional firewalling, if you're doing that already, it can be quite difficult to rearchitect everything around this product. So an example of that would be if, like us, you came from a datacenter style architecture within your cloud environment and you are trying to move to a more cloud-fronted architecture. Probably the best way to put it is that can be quite difficult, but once you've deployed, it gets easier operationally. So to kind of reverse engineer everything and then do everything again can be quite tedious in some ways. But that will be specific to people depending on where they're coming from with it.