Cisco Secure Workload Review
June 10, 2024

Cisco Secure Workload Review

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Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Workload

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.
  • 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.

Do you think Cisco Secure Workload delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Cisco Secure Workload's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Secure Workload live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Cisco Secure Workload go as expected?

No

Would you buy Cisco Secure Workload again?

Yes

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.

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