Cisco Secure Workload vs. Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
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Cisco Secure Workload | Score9.1 out of 10 | N/A | The Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) platform offers holistic workload protection for multicloud data centers by enabling a zero-trust model using segmentation. This approach allows users to identify security incidents faster, contain lateral movement, and reduce the attack surface. Tetration's infrastructure-agnostic approach supports both on-premises and public cloud workloads. | N/A |
Vulcan Cyber (discontinued) | Score7.4 out of 10 | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | Vulcan Cyber was an exposure and vulnerability risk mitigation platform, acquired by Tenable in early 2025. The product is no longer available for sale, and functionality has been integrated into the Tenable One Exposure Management platform's vulnerability solution. | N/A |
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| Additional Details | Cisco Secure Workload software is licensed based on the number of workload equivalents or devices (endpoints) depending on the agent or sensor type being used. Telemetry data can be collected using agents, supported by other supported sensors or collectors, in any combination. Policy enforcement is enabled through agents with enforcement capability with infrastructure enforcement delivered through Cisco Secure Firewall Integration, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), and Security Groups in public cloud infrastructure or orchestrated via streamed Kafka policy. Workload is defined as a virtual machine, bare-metal server, or container host and includes server and desktop operating systems. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Would buy again 12 Answers | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Delivers good value for the price 9 Answers | |
| Happy with the feature set | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Happy with the feature set 12 Answers | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
No answers on this topic | 83% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 5 Answers | |
| Implementation went as expected | ||
No answers on this topic | 83% Implementation went as expected 5 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | No answers on this topic | Tenable Nessus Score8.8 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | No answers on this topic | Tenable Vulnerability Management Score8.9 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.3 | 7.1 |
| Ease of integration | - | 7.0 |
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