Why multicloud network security solutions are the future of cloud security

While the cloud requires a defense-in-depth strategy, implementing individual controls through point solutions creates fragmented visibility, duplication, and coverage gaps. Multicloud Network Security solutions solve these challenges by strategically consolidating visibility and control into a single, integrated system.

A multicloud network security solution provides a comprehensive approach for securing cloud workloads by consolidating visibility and unifying security controls across complex multicloud environments from a single controller. This approach reduces your mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR), cuts costs, and boosts your cloud security posture.

A purpose-built multicloud network security solution combines multiple capabilities, providing:

Continuous visibility into your network posture, including real-time asset discovery and inventory, assessment of open network paths, and suspicious traffic detection.
Cloud workload protection to secure ingress, egress, and east-west traffic so you can detect and block malicious or prohibited activity, prevent lateral movement, and meet compliance requirements.
Web protection for your applications and APIs through a single-policy framework.

The advantages include:

Single policy management — eliminating overlapping controls at various defense points, saving you time, reducing complexity, and enabling more consistent security that reduces the attack surface.
Business impact: risk reduction.
Overall improved effectiveness — reducing overhead, minimizing manual errors, and improving MTTD/MTTR by automating a variety of processes.
Business impact: cost and resource efficiency
Lower latency and higher performance — decrypting traffic once for all your security controls through single-pass inspection so you can improve the user experience without compromising protections such as resource-intensive east-west traffic decryption.
Business impact: business resilience and agility

The best multicloud network security solutions scale on demand when you need additional capacity and integrate with open-source automation solutions and other third-party tools such as SIEM, SOAR, and threat intelligence. These security solutions enable you to simplify business processes and user training, reduce implementation and maintenance costs, and lower your overall security and business risks.

Future-proof your cloud security architecture

Your cloud network security needs to be flexible so it can accommodate both your current needs and future state. As you develop your cloud security architecture, consider how quickly and seamlessly it will be able to adapt to the evolution of your multicloud environment.

The cloud offers speed and agility so you can transform your business and remain competitive. But you can’t capitalize on cloud benefits if your cloud security can’t keep up. Choose a security model that helps you accelerate your cloud initiatives rather than becoming a hurdle.

Implement multicloud security in 5 minutes with Cisco

Cisco Multicloud Defense is a purpose-built, multicloud cloud network security solution that consolidates multiple security capabilities to deliver an end-to-end, integrated approach to protecting your cloud workloads and applications with a single multicloud policy. It scales on demand and integrates out of the box with tools such as Terraform, ServiceNow, and Splunk.

With Cisco Multicloud Defense, you gain:

Fast, 1-click deployment via a SaaS console
Proactive, layered, advanced security controls
Security policy automation based on context through tags
Reduced maintenance with no scripts
10X productivity boost due to consolidated workflows and
minimal upkeep

Robust, advanced cloud security doesn’t have to be complicated. Cisco Multicloud Defense cuts your operating expenses, reduces your time to market, and lowers your risk — so your business can move as fast as the cloud without making compromises.

Sources:
1 How LOG4SHELL Changed Cloud Security. Valtix. 2022.
2 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon. 2023.
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