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.
Likelihood to Recommend
The biggest challenge with this product is it crosses lines. You need somebody who can support servers as well as somebody who supports the infrastructure. And that's usually two different jobs, two different job titles, two different departments. So if you have a lot of silos within your organization and you have groups that don't work particularly well together between the server team and the network team, you will have problems developing and working on this product. If your server team and your network team work well together, then you'll have a lot fewer problems, it'll work pretty well. But if your server team and your network team are like oil and water don't bother.
