Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall

The distributed nature of today's IT environments has made it difficult for organisations to manage and share firewall policies across different form factors and locales. Additionally, hybrid environments leave organisations vulnerable to lateral movement of attacks, leading to costly breaches. Compounding these issues, the rise of AI has introduced a new attack surface that traditional security tools were not designed to address.

Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall provides advanced threat protection and consistent security while increasing operation efficiency. It enables advanced macro and granular microsegmentation capabilities to prevent unauthorised lateral movement and protect critical applications. Additionally, it includes the ability to protect development and deployment of AI-enabled applications through specialised guardrails.

Traditional firewalls protect specific network boundaries with a standalone appliance that can be either physical or virtual. In contrast, a hybrid mesh firewall architecture is managed by a unified, cloud-based management interface that coordinates security enforcement across various firewall form factors. This enables security enforcement across different points in the network such as the perimeter and between zones. Cisco takes this concept a step further to include advanced security controls such as robust microsegmentation, the ability to protect the development and deployment of AI models, mitigate application vulnerabilities, and orchestrate third-party firewall policies.

Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall includes all capabilities from our next-generation firewall solutions such as encrypted traffic inspection, zero-day threat protection powered by Snort ML and Talos Threat Intelligence, and threat discovery. Additionally, Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall includes advanced macro-to-microsegmentation segmentation capabilities for protecting applications in any environment—including modern Kubernetes. It can also discover and prioritise vulnerabilities and apply compensating controls to shield vulnerable applications and infrastructure during patch development. It is also capable of protecting the development and deployment of AI models as well as orchestrate third-party firewall policies. All capabilities are accessed centrally through Cisco Security Cloud Control—Cisco's cloud-based, unified management interface.

Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall is cloud agnostic, leveraging cloud-native automation and orchestration to easily extend Layer-7 firewalling capabilities across leading cloud environments. With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall, customers can automate the deployment, scaling, and healing of firewalls, including the required infrastructure and routing. To protect applications, Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall provides robust segmentation capabilities (macro and micro) across hybrid environments with or without agents. All enforcement points are managed through Cisco Security Cloud Control.

Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall allows you to add enforcement points overtime without the need to rip and replace the current tools in your environment. For example, a customer may start with our firewalls for zone-based segmentation and add microsegmentation capabilities over time. Additionally, Cisco Security Cloud Control is included with our hybrid mesh firewall solution, simplifying management and increasing productivity even as you scale enforcement points.

Start with any of the tools in the Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution and add at your own pace. Core software technologies can be easily consumed through the Cisco Cloud Protection Suite, which marries simplicity, flexibility, and investment protection. Contact your Cisco sales representative to learn more.