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Cisco Secure Workload pros and cons

Vendor: Cisco
4.3 out of 5

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PROS

Cisco Secure Workload provides enhanced visibility into network activities, ensuring comprehensive security measures are enforceable.
It offers micro-segmentation, significantly improving the handling of network traffic and visibility.
Cisco Secure Workload supports scalability as a notable feature, accommodating growing network demands seamlessly.
It eliminates the need for manual checks of control lists by offering direct auditor access to dashboards, vastly saving time.
The platform ensures 100% telemetry coverage, offering non-intermittent, complete insights into network and endpoint activities.

CONS

Cisco Secure Workload is only available on Cisco devices, limiting its scalability.
High initial hardware investment and cost due to the need for extensive storage and computing power present a price point issue.
Email notifications are either hard to find or unavailable, and search capabilities need improvement.
Documentation for advanced features is basic, with room for better integration with other applications.
Monitoring, multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup, and restore functionalities require significant improvements.
 

Cisco Secure Workload Pros review quotes

RR
Senior Manager Cloud Ops and Engineering at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oct 24, 2018
By using Tetration insight, we are able to get the latency on our level accounts and we can determine whatever the issue is with the application latency itself.
DV
Brand Manager at Comtrade Group
Jan 30, 2019
Scalability is its most valuable feature.
FH
Works at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
Instead of proving that all the access control lists are in place and all the EPGs are correct, we can just point the auditor to a dashboard and point out that there aren't any escaped conversations. It saves an enormous, enormous amount of time.
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it_user1045743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Regional Director, US East at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
May 28, 2019
A complete and powerful micro-segmentation solution.
NetworkEfaaf - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 19, 2019
The product offers great visibility into the network so we can enforce security measures.
PR
Data Center Manager at Cox Communications
Jun 19, 2019
The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don't have to do packet captures on the network.
BA
Information Security Engineer at ENEDIS
Sep 24, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is security.
reviewer1037232 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Sep 30, 2021
The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network.
it_user1323042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Liberty Global
Apr 13, 2020
The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility.
Boris REYES - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS
Oct 25, 2022
It's stable.
 

Cisco Secure Workload Cons review quotes

RR
Senior Manager Cloud Ops and Engineering at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oct 24, 2018
It is highly scalable, but there is a limitation that it is only available on Cisco devices.
DV
Brand Manager at Comtrade Group
Jan 30, 2019
It is not so easy to use and configure. It needs a bunch of further resources to work, which is mainly the biggest downside of it. The deployment is huge.
FH
Works at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
They should scale down the hardware a bit. The initial hardware investment is two million dollars so it's a price point problem. The issue with the price comes from the fact that you have to have it with enormous storage and enormous computes.
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it_user1045743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Regional Director, US East at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
May 28, 2019
It has an uninviting interface.
NetworkEfaaf - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 19, 2019
The emailed notifications are either hard to find or they are not available. Search capabilities can be improved.
PR
Data Center Manager at Cox Communications
Jun 19, 2019
I'd like to see better documentation for advanced features. The documentation is fairly basic. I would also like to see better integration with other applications.
BA
Information Security Engineer at ENEDIS
Sep 24, 2019
The interface is really helpful for technical people, but it is not user-friendly.
reviewer1037232 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Sep 30, 2021
The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring.
it_user1323042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Liberty Global
Apr 13, 2020
There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and I need to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to jump between different tools.
Boris REYES - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS
Oct 25, 2022
The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions.