Secure and Optimize Your Multicloud Deployments with Cisco Multicloud Defense

This article discusses Cisco's new multicloud network security offering, Cisco Multicloud Defense, which helps protect workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS). It explains how Cisco Multicloud Defense simplifies cloud security by unifying security controls, driving operational efficiency with automation and orchestration, and providing flexibility to deploy centralized or distributed security architectures.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Overview of Cisco Multicloud Defense components (Multicloud Defense Controller and Multicloud Defense Gateway)
• Benefits of using Multicloud Defense (native deployment, integration with AWS services, auto-scaling, etc.)
• Deployment models:
  • Centralized security model (with diagrams for ingress, egress, and east-west traffic protection)
  • Decentralized egress and ingress model (with diagrams)
• Customer success story with Teradata and the impacts of deploying Multicloud Defense
• Conclusion and additional resources to learn more