Cisco Multicloud Defense vs. Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

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.

Incentivized

The high level of IT expertise was recognized when using Symantec Cloud Workload Protection as security software when forming a business partnership with a major IT company. In addition, since it is possible to centrally manage the control of USB devices to each employee's PC, it is of great help to the head of the company's security department to be able to handle it with one hand.

Incentivized

• 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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• Ultimate Protection
• Ransomware resiliency
• Better Policy management
• Cloud model with Offline Agent deployment

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Occasionally, the security system would detect the introduction of a dedicated tool or system from another company that is generally not available.
• With a 16GB laptop, the PC will be slow when scanning.
• While developing, I feel a little inconvenience that the PC freezes when scanning runs behind the scenes.

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If it maintains its current direction it will be very disruptive in the cloud security space

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Ease of Use

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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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Positive - ROI for long term deployment
• Negative - Support
• Negative - Offline infra protection
• Positive - Product Features

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