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Secure your migration to cloud and multicloud environments with consistent microsegmentation policies that follow workloads across on-premises data centers, private clouds, and public cloud platforms.
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Cisco Secure Workload
Reduce Your Attack Surface with Zero Trust Microsegmentation
Stop threats from spreading and protect the applications that power your business with zero trust microsegmentation — on any workload, across any environment.
Safeguard Application Workloads, Wherever They Live
Take control of your applications and drive security resilience with Cisco Secure Workload. Designed for scale and speed, Secure Workload makes zero trust achievable by consistently and accurately enforcing microsegmentation across your entire application landscape. Whether workloads run on bare-metal servers, virtual machines, or containers — on-premises or across multiple clouds — Secure Workload provides comprehensive visibility, automated policy recommendations, and real-time compliance monitoring to protect the data your business relies on.
Comprehensive Workload Protection at Scale
Cisco Secure Workload combines deep visibility, automated policy management, and consistent enforcement to deliver zero trust microsegmentation across your entire infrastructure.
Enforce Zero Trust Consistently
Achieve zero trust by consistently and accurately enforcing microsegmentation across your entire application landscape — any workload, any location. Automatically generated policies based on application communication patterns reduce manual effort and accelerate deployment.
Industry-Leading Visibility
Your single source of truth for every workload interaction. Comprehensive flow analysis powers best-practice policy recommendations and automation tailored to your environment, with near real-time compliance monitoring and forensic records of all communications.
Security at Application Speed
Rapidly respond to application changes with near real-time alerts, automated policies, and forensics with an auditable record. Strengthen your security posture, reduce risk, and decrease costs associated with application downtime at every step.
Microsegmentation Policy Lifecycle
From automatic policy discovery to consistent enforcement and real-time compliance, Secure Workload manages the complete microsegmentation policy lifecycle across your multicloud environment.
Automated Policy Recommendation
Automatically generate highly specific microsegmentation policies based on complete visibility of application communications, running processes, and their dependencies.
Flexible Policy Definition
Define dynamic attribute-based policies with a hierarchical model enriched by metadata from CMDB, IPAM, orchestration platforms, and authentication systems.
Scalable Enforcement
Enforce a dynamic allow-list policy across every workload — from 100 to 100,000 — using native OS firewalls, ADCs, and infrastructure integration points.
Real-Time Compliance
Monitor all communications with near real-time policy compliance assessment, instant alerts on violations, and retained flow records for forensic analysis.
Top Use Cases for Secure Workload
Contain Lateral Movement
Stop threats from spreading across your environment by creating firewalls at the workload level. Secure Workload enforces allow-list policies that block unauthorized east-west traffic between application tiers.
Reduce Attack Surface
Minimize your exposure by enforcing least-privilege access to every workload. Automated policy recommendations eliminate unnecessary network paths and close security gaps across your infrastructure.
Automated Compliance
Track application policy compliance in near real time with automated alerts, forensic flow records, and a composite security dashboard. Integrate with SIEM systems for investigation and remediation workflows.
Secure Ephemeral Workloads
Protect dynamic container-based environments with policies that automatically adapt to CI/CD workflows. API-driven policy sets and orchestration platform integration ensure security keeps pace with rapid deployment cycles.
Vulnerability Management
Discover installed software packages and detect known vulnerabilities by matching against NIST and vendor-specific databases. Dynamically provision quarantine or hardening policies to protect vulnerable workloads.
Flexible Deployment Options
Choose the Right Deployment for Your Organization
Cisco Secure Workload is available as a fully managed SaaS solution or as an on-premises hardware appliance, so you can deploy zero trust microsegmentation in the model that best fits your operational requirements.
- SaaS: Fully managed by Cisco with flexible pricing, fast time-to-value, and European data residency support
- On-Premises: Hardware appliance in small or large form factor for full on-premises control of apps and data
- Both options deliver high performance, high availability, and secure multicloud migration
Integrates with Your Cisco Security Stack
Cisco Secure Workload shares telemetry and policy context across the Cisco security portfolio, strengthening your overall security posture through unified visibility and coordinated response.
Key Integrations
Cisco Secure Firewall
Stream microsegmentation policy intent to Cisco Secure Firewall for consistent enforcement across the network perimeter and internal segments, extending zero trust beyond the workload.
Cisco ISE
Integrate with Cisco Identity Services Engine to enrich workload context with user identity, endpoint posture, and authentication data for more granular policy definition.
Cisco XDR
Feed workload telemetry, forensic events, and anomaly alerts into Cisco XDR for correlated threat detection and automated response across your entire security ecosystem.
SIEM & SOAR
Export compliance alerts, forensic events, and policy violation data to your SIEM and SOAR platforms for centralized security operations and automated incident response workflows.
Related Cisco Security Products
Network Security
Cisco Secure Firewall
Industry-leading firewall protection with unified management across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Extends microsegmentation enforcement beyond the workload.
Identity & Access
Cisco Identity Services Engine
Centralized policy management for network access control. Enriches Secure Workload with user and device context for identity-aware microsegmentation policies.
Threat Detection
Cisco XDR
Unified detection and response across endpoints, networks, and workloads. Correlates Secure Workload telemetry with broader threat intelligence for faster incident resolution.
Get Started with Cisco Secure Workload
Our Cisco-certified team can help you evaluate, license, and deploy Secure Workload to protect your application environment with zero trust microsegmentation.
- Zero trust microsegmentation for any workload, any environment
- Automated policy recommendations and enforcement at scale
- Real-time compliance monitoring and vulnerability detection
- Response from a certified Cisco specialist within one business day
