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    Cisco Multicloud Defense

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AA solution to simplify security and gain multidirectional protection across any public or private cloud to block inbound attacks, lateral movement, and data exfiltration using a single solution. Cisco Multicloud Defense protects all cloud environments using a single software-as-a-service (SaaS) control plane, eliminating inefficient, complex, and costly point solutions.N/A

    FortiCNAPP

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AFortiCNAPP is an enterprise Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms solution that unifies security posture management, developer code scanning, cloud identity governance, and runtime threat detection into a single management console. FortiCNAPP represents the evolution of Fortinet's cloud security portfolio following its acquisition of Lacework in August 2024. Formerly marketed as Lacework FortiCNAPP, the platform incorporates Lacework's foundational polygraph behavioral analysis engine…N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco Multicloud DefenseFortiCNAPP
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Cloud Computing Security Features
    Comparison of Cloud Computing Security Features features of Cisco Multicloud Defense and FortiCNAPP
    Feature
    Cisco Multicloud Defense
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    FortiCNAPP
    -
    Ratings
    Automated Data Backup and Recovery8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intrusion Detection and Prevention:8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Regular Vulnerability Management8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identity and Access Management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Secure Data Transfer8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security Incident Response8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance and Auditing8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Armor
    Score6 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Trend Micro Deep Security
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS CloudTrail
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Multicloud DefenseFortiCNAPP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Multicloud DefenseFortiCNAPP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    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.
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    Fortinet
    Lacework is well suited for behavioral analysis. One thing to consider thought is in the early stages there will be quite a bit of noise generated by Lacework. There will be a higher volume alerts generated initially - until a good baseline is generated. Overall Lacework is good with alert handling - integration with Slack is good.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • DLP monitoring - key item for us which helps to view if anything which should leave our environment our or even between each part of network between/inside specific clouds
    • Segmentation of subnet, basic but helpful to isolate each host into their own part of single subnet and connect them, including all visibility features which are offered by Cisco defense systems
    • Allow/deny rules helps us to block, monitor and logs traffic passing in each direction of our environment
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    Fortinet
    • Easy to set-up the agent in cloud workloads.
    • Easy integration with ticketing and messaging tools.
    • Detailed visibility of all our container workloads across multiple accounts.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The ability to see traffic flowing and identify malicious traffic is amazing.
    • The ease of setting up the connections of the cloud platforms is perfect.
    • Dynamic based security policies allow for better protection.
    • I don't have any detailed examples of improvement so instead I highlighted a couple of aspects that make the solution amazing.
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    Fortinet
    • UI can be complicated and hard to know where to click to find information.
    • Ability to create and manage cases or tickets from events that trigger.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    If it maintains its current direction it will be very disruptive in the cloud security space
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    Fortinet
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Cisco
    Ease of Use
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    Fortinet
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    As of yet I havent logged a TAC case - It will be interesting to see how it is supported as a new product in the medium term
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    Fortinet
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Multicloud Defense, Crowd Strike Falcon, and Arctic Wolf Cloud Posture Security Management System as a service SAAS platforms are very comparable platforms. Unfortunately for Croud Strike, they had a mishap recently that caused major downtime for many companies worldwide. I do not think that you would have to worry about this happening with Cisco Multicloud Defense.
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    Fortinet
    Compared to Sysdig Falco (the free open-source IDS), Lacework helps security teams by providing actionable alerts and a user-friendly interface that gives you an overview of all workloads being monitored, and detailed insights into these workloads if needed. Falco requires you to build your own integration and interface around it, including a mechanism to whitelist certain alerts. This made it harder for the security team to focus their time on potential intrusions.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The insight that it provides allows us to move away from other tools and just utilize the Cisco Multicloud Defense.
    • Insights into data usage provides tangible analytics.
    • Ease of management and use allows for less in-depth and specialized training.
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    Fortinet
    • Being a FinTech company, financial institutions who partner with us want to know that we are appropriately maintaining a Security, Risk and Compliance program that maintains a level of comfort for their vendor management. Lacework gives us the ability to monitor and maintain a level of security for our infrastructure that puts our partners at ease, reduces the revenue cycle for new partners and opens doors to the future.
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