In the contemporary digital landscape, businesses increasingly utilize a mix of cloud and on-premises environments to manage their critical applications. As user demand for secure access from any location continue to grow, traditional firewall methods have been rendered obsolete. Firewall security has evolved significantly, now encompassing physical, virtual, and cloud-native appliances. Cisco Secure Firewall integrates core networking functions with advanced security features, creating a robust architecture that safeguards applications and users across various business environments.
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Reasons to Choose Cisco Secure Firewall
The Cisco Secure Firewall offers superior protection against an array of complex threats. By investing in this firewall one can secure a foundation that is both flexible and integrated, thus, ensuring robust security without sacrificing performance. Moreover, the Cisco Secure Firewall seamlessly integrates with other Cisco and third-party solutions, which forms a comprehensive security portfolio that allows one to correlate events, reduce noise, and mitigates threats more effectively.
Enhanced Visibility and Control
The increasing complexity of threats and networks brings with it the need for robust protection. As such, the Cisco Secure Firewalls are equipped with the power and flexibility needed to stay encrypted traffic at scale or without decryption, significantly boosting performance. Their multi-threaded Snort 3 inspection engine’s human-readable rules further simplifies security management. As a result, through Cisco Secure Workload integration, dynamic application visibility and control is achieved, ensuring consistent protection for modern applications.
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Streamlined Firewall Management
The Cisco Secure Firewall portfolio offers various flexible management options to handle numerous firewalls from a centralized location. It grants users a consistent interface, enhancing their productivity, whether it be through deploying on-premises hardware or through virtual environments. Moreover, its cloud-delivered solutions further increase operational efficiency, while the Cisco Security Analytics and Logging improve threat detection and compliance with extended retention and behavioral analysis capabilities.
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Benefits of the Cisco Secure Firewall
Optimized Operations: Cisco Secure Firewall simplifies management and enhances operational efficiency through an improved workflow interface, and the new AI Assistant for Security.
Exceptional Security Controls: Powered by Talos threat intelligence and an encrypted visibility engine, Cisco Secure Firewall provides state of the art protection by detecting encrypted threats without decryption.
Cost-Effective Solutions: Cisco Secure Firewall is by far an economic choice as it reduces vendor overlap and streamline licensing with Enterprise Licensing Agreements and flexible payment plans.
Advanced Capabilities
Unified Management: The Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) provides integrated management of firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and malware defense policies.
Intrusion Prevention System: The Snort 3 Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) leads the industry in offering rapid threat protection.
Threat Intelligence: The Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams, provides actionable insights and maintains rulesets for Snort.org and ClamAV.net.
Dynamic Policy Support: Cisco supports dynamic attributes from VMware, AWS, and Azure for environments lacking static IP addresses.
Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE): EVE uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to control encrypted traffic without decryption, eliminating performance bottlenecks and meeting compliance requirements.
SnortML: This machine learning-based exploit detection engine proactively identifies and blocks common threats, known vulnerabilities, and zero-day exploits.
AI Assistant for Security: The AI Assistant aids in policy identification and reporting, enhances troubleshooting and threat defense, and automates correction of misconfigurations and outdated rules.
TLS Server Identity and Discovery: The Cisco Secure Firewall maintains Layer 7 policies on encrypted TLS 1.3 traffic for visibility and control in an encrypted world.
Secure Branch Routing: The Cisco Secure Firewall consolidates advanced security and networking in distributed branches with built-in secure branch routing templates and zero-touch provisioning.
Zero Trust Application Access (ZTAA): The Secure Firewall moves beyond traditional ZTNA models with thorough threat inspection and policy enforcement for each application.
Secure Firewall Cloud Native: Designed with Kubernetes and initially available in AWS, this solution supports highly elastic, cloud-native infrastructure.
Cloud-Delivered Management: The Cisco Defense Orchestrator helps manage policies consistently, lowering operational costs.
Security Analytics and Logging: The Secure Firewall’s scalable log management with behavioral analysis enhances real-time threat detection and compliance.
Secure Workload Integration: The Firewall’s comprehensive visibility and consistent policy enforcement for modern applications across the network and workloads.
Cisco XDR: Accelerate threat detection and remediation with Cisco XDR, enabling quicker incident response.
Partner with Axelliant for Cisco Secure Firewall
As a Cisco Gold Integrated Partner, Axelliant is your trusted partner for deploying and managing Cisco Secure Firewall. Our expertise ensures you maximize the benefits of Cisco’s comprehensive security solutions, securing your business with confidence now and into the future. Partner with Axelliant to access the robust protections and superior performance of Cisco Secure Firewall, securing your applications and users wherever they are.
