Cisco ACI & AlgoSec: Achieving Application-driven Security Across your Hybrid Network

The AlgoSec Connectivity and Compliance App provides insights into your network and security posture, including a current snapshot of risk and compliance across your ACI fabric. Key capabilities of the App include: - Traffic assessment to determine if specific traffic is traversing the network or if its blocked - including visibility into security devices and their status across the traffic route - The ability to automatically update the firewall policy in the event that connectivity is blocked erroneously - Instant risk analysis for Cisco ACI contracts alongside firewall security policies - A detailed PCI compliance report for your Cisco ACI fabric, that’s ready for auditors

Network segmentation is an effective strategy for protecting access to key data assets, and impeding the lateral movement of threats and cyber criminals inside your data center. With network virtualization, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI now a reality it's far simpler to set up granular security policies for east-west traffic within the data center. Yet the added granularity of securities policies creates significant complexity. Presented by renowned industry expert Professor Avishai Wool, this technical webinar will provide strategies and best practices to help organizations migrate and manage security policies efficiently within a micro-segmented data center. In this webinar, Prof. Wool will discuss how to:

• Identify and securely migrate legacy applications to a micro-segmented data center
• Effectively define and enforce security policies for East-West traffic
• Manage the micro-segmented data center alongside traditional on-premise security devices
• Identify risk and manage compliance in a micro-segmented data center
• Use network segmentation to reduce the scope of regulatory audits
• Identify and avoid common network segmentation mistakes

Cisco partners and customers get even easier access to integrated, application-centric security management both within and outside their ACI data centers AlgoSec and Cisco share the same business-driven, application-centric security management philosophy:  we both focus on enabling automation and supporting agile application delivery for enterprises.  We have been a Cisco technology partner for many years, and have developed integrated solutions that extend Cisco ACI’s policy-based automation across all enterprise networks, both inside and outside of virtualized data centers.  security management philosophy:  we both focus on enabling automation and supporting agile application delivery for enterprises.  We have been a Cisco technology partner for many years, and have developed integrated solutions that extend Cisco ACI’s policy-based automation across all enterprise networks, both inside and outside of virtualized data centers.  And we’re delighted to announce that we are taking this shared vision a stage further:  our solutions are now available on the Cisco Global Price List.  This means that members of Cisco’s own sales force as well as its reseller eco-system can now offer AlgoSec solutions to their customers through Cisco’s systems.  AlgoSec’s strong integrations with Cisco’s ACI, Firewalls, Tetration, ISE and SDA deliver powerful benefits to our mutual customers. Using AlgoSec, customers can fully automate security change management processes across their Cisco ACI environments – from planning, risk and compliance checks, to deployment directly onto security devices – with zero touch.  AlgoSec also extends ACI’s policy-based automation to all network security devices, both inside and outside the data center, enabling customers to maintain a consistently strong security posture across their entire network estate. Security teams can also automatically generate a full range of risk and compliance reports covering their organization’s entire network – saving them significant time and effort when it comes to audit preparation. AlgoSec’s close integration with the rich capabilities of Cisco’s Tetration Analytics platform enables customers to use our solution to build a physical and logical map of their entire network estate, including all security devices from multiple vendors.  Then, through the integration, network and security teams can discover and map application flows, automate security policy changes end-to-end, ensure compliance, and assess risk across their estates according to business needs and priorities.  Through our partnership with Cisco, mutual customers benefit from software-defined security across their hybrid network environment. AlgoSec Security Management Solution for ACI ensures continuous compliance and automates provisioning of security policies not just across the ACI fabric, but also across multi-vendor security devices connected to ACI, helping customers to build truly secure data centers. The solution is based on Cisco APIC and ASMS integration to delivers a powerful multi-tenant, policy-driven, application-centric model for network security. Why not find out more about how AlgoSec can harmonize the security management of your ACI deployment alongside the rest of your network, to deliver consistent security policy management and visibility across data centers and clouds?  Watch our video or download the Infographic for details.

With the integration of AlgoSec into the Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) architecture, customers can monitor security policy changes across their Cisco ACI system, obtain risk and compliance context for both managed and unmanaged security devices, and extend automation across their entire security environment.