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Cisco Secure Workload pros and cons

Vendor: Cisco
4.3 out of 5

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PROS

Cisco Secure Workload provides enhanced visibility into network activities, ensuring comprehensive security measures are enforceable.
It offers micro-segmentation, significantly improving the handling of network traffic and visibility.
Cisco Secure Workload supports scalability as a notable feature, accommodating growing network demands seamlessly.
It eliminates the need for manual checks of control lists by offering direct auditor access to dashboards, vastly saving time.
The platform ensures 100% telemetry coverage, offering non-intermittent, complete insights into network and endpoint activities.

CONS

Cisco Secure Workload is only available on Cisco devices, limiting its scalability.
High initial hardware investment and cost due to the need for extensive storage and computing power present a price point issue.
Email notifications are either hard to find or unavailable, and search capabilities need improvement.
Documentation for advanced features is basic, with room for better integration with other applications.
Monitoring, multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup, and restore functionalities require significant improvements.
 

Cisco Secure Workload Pros review quotes

Torben Nissen Ernst - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect - Cyber & Cloud Security Expert at Secure Cloud
Apr 25, 2024
The only use case I can see that makes sense is micro-segmentation. I think there are other use cases for it. The main purpose of the product is to do micro-segmentation by collecting IP. That could be done by installing an agent, and then you have all the communication coming in and out. You could also use some flow sensors installed in the network that receive a copy of the traffic and then report that back to the system.
reviewer2163369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Apr 24, 2023
Generally speaking, Cisco support is considered one of the best in the networking products and stack.
Muhammad  Marakkoottathil - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Presales Consultant (INS Division) at GBM
Nov 2, 2022
Secure Workload's best feature is that it's an end-to-end offering from Cisco.
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Boris REYES - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS
Oct 25, 2022
It's stable.
SG
Technical Presales at Vcom Technologies
Jan 15, 2024
The product provides multiple-device integration.
reviewer1037232 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Sep 30, 2021
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.
it_user1323042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Liberty Global
Apr 13, 2020
The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility.
BA
Information Security Engineer at ENEDIS
Sep 24, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is security.
NetworkEfaaf - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 19, 2019
The product offers great visibility into the network so we can enforce security measures.
PR
Data Center Manager at Cox Communications
Jun 19, 2019
The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don't have to do packet captures on the network.
 

Cisco Secure Workload Cons review quotes

Torben Nissen Ernst - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect - Cyber & Cloud Security Expert at Secure Cloud
Apr 25, 2024
There's room for improvement when it comes to Cisco Secure Workload. A couple of internal areas could be refined a little bit. They are trying to solve it, depending on where you suppose the agent is. Suppose you have the agent on both the server and the client, which could be the front-end server or web server connecting to the. In that case, if those two are communicating on RPC, the server can look into its configuration. It could go down and find the configuration file on the FTP server and then set the policies to it. But there are a lot of different FTP servers out there. It's also a complex case for the tool to support all FTP servers.
reviewer2163369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Apr 24, 2023
There was a controversy when Cisco reduced the amount of data they kept, and the solution became quite cost-intensive, which made its adoption challenging….Although they have modified it now, I preferred the previous version, and I wish all the functionality were back under the same product.
Muhammad  Marakkoottathil - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Presales Consultant (INS Division) at GBM
Nov 2, 2022
Secure Workload is a little complicated to use, and the dashboard isn't intuitive, so it takes a while to learn how to use it.
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Boris REYES - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS
Oct 25, 2022
The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions.
SG
Technical Presales at Vcom Technologies
Jan 15, 2024
The product must be integrated with the cloud.
reviewer1037232 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Sep 30, 2021
The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring.
it_user1323042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Liberty Global
Apr 13, 2020
There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and I need to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to jump between different tools.
BA
Information Security Engineer at ENEDIS
Sep 24, 2019
The interface is really helpful for technical people, but it is not user-friendly.
NetworkEfaaf - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 19, 2019
The emailed notifications are either hard to find or they are not available. Search capabilities can be improved.
PR
Data Center Manager at Cox Communications
Jun 19, 2019
I'd like to see better documentation for advanced features. The documentation is fairly basic. I would also like to see better integration with other applications.