Cloud & AI Security

Secure Workload

Name: Cisco Secure Workload licensing, deployment and management
Brand: Cisco

Zero-trust microsegmentation across any workload, anywhere, from one console.

Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) delivers zero-trust microsegmentation across any location, any infrastructure, and any workload form factor from a single console. With comprehensive visibility into every workload interaction and AI/ML-driven policy lifecycle automation, it reduces the attack surface and prevents lateral movement. Faltrox operates it as the workload-segmentation layer of a zero-trust architecture.

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Overview

What Secure Workload is

Once an attacker is inside, lateral movement between workloads is how a foothold becomes a breach — and flat, over-permissive internal networks make it easy. Cisco Secure Workload closes that path with zero-trust microsegmentation: it maps every workload interaction and enforces least-privilege policy so workloads can only talk to what they legitimately need.

It works across any location (on-premises, cloud, hybrid), any infrastructure, and any workload form factor — bare metal, virtual machines, and containers — from a single console. AI/ML-driven policy lifecycle automation discovers application dependencies, recommends segmentation policy, and keeps it current as applications change, so microsegmentation is achievable at scale rather than a manual, brittle effort. Faltrox operates it — mapping dependencies, designing and enforcing policy, and reducing the internal attack surface.

Coverage

What it protects

The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.

Any Workload

Bare metal, virtual machines, and containers across any form factor.

Any Location

On-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure from a single console.

Lateral Movement

Microsegmentation prevents workload-to-workload lateral movement after a breach.

Workload Interactions

Comprehensive visibility maps every interaction between workloads and applications.

Attack Surface

Least-privilege segmentation reduces the internal attack surface dramatically.

Policy Automation

AI/ML discovers dependencies and automates the segmentation policy lifecycle.

How it works

The mechanism

How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.

01
Map
Secure Workload builds comprehensive visibility into every workload interaction and application dependency.
02
Discover Policy
AI/ML analyses the dependency map and recommends least-privilege segmentation policy automatically.
03
Enforce
Zero-trust microsegmentation policy is enforced consistently across any workload, location, and form factor.
04
Adapt
Policy lifecycle automation keeps segmentation current as applications and workloads change.
05
Operate
Faltrox maps dependencies, designs and enforces policy, and operates it as the workload-segmentation layer.

Capabilities

Key capabilities

Zero-Trust Microsegmentation

Least-privilege segmentation so workloads reach only what they legitimately need.

Any-Workload Coverage

Consistent enforcement across bare metal, VMs, and containers, on-premises and in the cloud.

Workload Visibility

Comprehensive visibility into every interaction between workloads and applications.

AI/ML Policy Automation

Automatically discovers dependencies and recommends and maintains segmentation policy.

Lateral-Movement Prevention

Contains an intruder to a single workload by blocking unnecessary east-west paths.

Attack-Surface Reduction

Removes the over-permissive internal connectivity attackers rely on to move.

Single Console

Manages segmentation across every location and form factor from one place.

Application Dependency Mapping

Reveals how applications actually communicate to inform accurate, safe policy.

Works with

Part of the platform

Cisco products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.

Cisco products

Faltrox services

Delivery

You buy the outcome, not the console

Managed by Faltrox

Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Cisco Secure Workload for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.

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FAQ

Common questions

01What is microsegmentation and why does it matter?

Microsegmentation enforces least-privilege connectivity between individual workloads, so a workload can only communicate with what it genuinely needs. It matters because it removes the flat internal connectivity attackers use to move laterally after a breach — turning one compromised workload into a dead end rather than a launch point.

02Does it work across cloud and on-premises?

Yes — it delivers consistent segmentation across any location (on-premises, cloud, hybrid), any infrastructure, and any workload form factor (bare metal, VMs, containers) from a single console, so policy is uniform across a heterogeneous estate.

03Isn’t microsegmentation notoriously hard to maintain?

That is the problem the AI/ML policy lifecycle automation addresses. It discovers application dependencies, recommends policy, and keeps it current as applications change — so segmentation is achievable and maintainable at scale rather than a brittle manual effort.

04How does it relate to network segmentation from ISE or firewalls?

ISE and firewalls segment at the network layer; Secure Workload segments at the workload layer, based on application dependencies. They complement each other, and Faltrox designs them together for layered zero-trust segmentation.

05How does Faltrox operate it?

We map your application dependencies, design and enforce the microsegmentation policy, and maintain it as applications evolve — operating Secure Workload as the workload-segmentation layer of the zero-trust architecture we build with you.

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Secure what’s next.

Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.