Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review In its current version, it is basic. There are nice new features that should provide a good overall picture of the configuration and security of the account.
Read full review Pros The thing that I'd like the most about Cisco Multicloud Defense so far is that it's allowed me to look at security within our cloud environment in a new way and to rebuild it in a far more scalable fashion while giving more control to people that are actually involved in the delivery end of things some ability to manage the networking security within that. Read full review Easy to connect to cloud account Provides basic configuration details or account, networking, what's public Read full review Cons I think there are some GUI changes that could be made, and probably will be made as the product matures moreso to align it with the wider Cisco security platform look and feel Read full review Difficult to attribute the vulnerabilities to the correct instance - cloud is too dynamic. Is supposed to be fixed in new version - we will see. Read full review Likelihood to Renew If it maintains its current direction it will be very disruptive in the cloud security space
Read full review Usability It is a straightforward platform to use - no overcomplication or hidden menus - everything is cleanly presented
Read full review Support Rating 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
Read full review Alternatives Considered I come from a deployment background, so I've used most of the vendor's firewall technologies. In the cloud, I've primarily used Cisco's legacy Firepower product. It doesn't really parallel with them in that it's not a traditional firewall appliance sitting in the cloud. Its utilization of tags and how it groups objects are separated a little bit as it's very intrinsically linked with the cloud environment itself. It doesn't just sit in it, it spans out into it in a much more organic way. And because of that then you can, as I mentioned before, if there are security requirements that exist on one server, it is very easy to replicate these over to another server utilizing tags without having to configure this new server you're spinning up within the firewall itself. It will pull it all into its inventory with no intervention from you.
Read full review We looked at this over a year ago, the space was still young.
Censys provided what we originally needed, but was soon outdone by Tenable with their initial release. I am sure that
Censys improved as well, but it was easier to expand on our current Tenable license.
Read full review Return on Investment Our availability has increased because of how availability works within this product. Whereas before as running two virtual machines for firewalls, the automated end of this entire deployment where if it sees a health issue, it will build another version itself and drain the old one and re-add the traffic into the new one very cleanly with very little loss. So that's really greatly improved our availability. Then the deployment of new services will also be quicker because, as I mentioned, it is tag-based, if you already have a preexisting tag architecture, you can just add new services into that and they will automatically be pulled into the new system. So it's more efficient in that way. In terms of commercials, I guess it's kind of similar. I don't think it will make a massive commercial difference to us, but in terms of the operational element it will. Read full review Being a Tenable One customer - these are just new features we suddenly own. As long as you have the asset count available Read full review ScreenShots