Cisco Secure Workload Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cisco Secure Workload is a product that manages host-based firewalls. So it's used to manage our corporate side infrastructure servers, local firewalls.
Pros
- It's a very good central place to manage thousands of servers worth of different firewalls, all from a single pane of glass and keeping them all working together. That's what it does really well.
Cons
- They actually do a pretty good job with this particular product. I can be very picky about most Cisco products, but this one has been fairly well put together for improvement. Some of the agent work could be that installs in the servers could be done a little more cleanly and there's definitely room for improvement within the web UI. Just things that don't line up and scroll bars and awkward positions and things like that. But generally speaking, most of the items that are outstanding are pretty minor.
Return on Investment
- None. Not for an ROI. There's no particular ROI. This is managing east West traffic in the data center as a specific item. As long as these bus traffic works and is an impact, if things work, if they don't, it's very bad. It is a proactive approach.
