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How to Accelerate Data Center Application Deployments With Cisco ACI and AlgoSec

Anner Kushnir, VP Technology, AlgoSec

Juan Lage, Principal Engineer, Cisco

BRKPAR-1210

• Introduction & Motivation

• AlgoSec Overview

• Cisco ACI & AlgoSec -Solution Overview

• Demo

• Summary

• Q&A

Agenda

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Applications Are Changing

* Cisco Global IT Impact Survey

Type

Consumption

Delivery

78% The network is even more critical to delivering

applications than a year ago*

Big Data,

Distributed

Apps, Mobile

Cloud–public,

Private, Hybrid

Anywhere,

Anytime, Any

Device

→ End-to-end automation is a must

Security Management Automation

Single Pane of Glass

Business Driven Security

Provide Business Application context to

Security and Risk

Provide uniform visibility across the entire network security infrastructure –

on premise, private cloud & SDN, and in public

cloud

Intelligently enhance and automate time-consuming security

processes and activities with business context

Manage Security at the Speed of Business

ACI & AlgoSecSolution overview

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Data Center

ACI

Solution Architecture

Visibility & ComplianceAutomatic ProvisioningBusiness Applications

Data Center FWs (L4-L7 services)Perimeter & Upstream FWs

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AlgoSec & Cisco ACI - Key Value Points

• Security policy visibility across the entire network

Within Data Center - Cisco ACI and underlying firewalls

Perimeter and upstream firewalls

Cloud security groups

• Monitor and proactively identify security policy changes

• Risk and compliance analysis

• Significantly simplify and reduce audit preparation efforts and costs

End-to-End Visibility & Compliance

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Automation & Business Agility

• AlgoSec extends Cisco ACI policy-based automation across the entire network

Automated security policy change management for multi-vendor devices

• Avoid misconfigurations and outages

• End-to-end automation

• Continuous compliance and documentation is retained

AlgoSec & Cisco ACI - Key Value Points

Demo

End-to-End Visibility & Compliance

Security Policy Change Automation

Cisco ACI App Center:AlgoSec Connectivity and Compliance App

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Summary

• Security policy visibility across the entire network, including Cisco ACI

• Automated security policy change management for multi-vendor devices across the entire estate

• Risk and compliance analysis for Cisco ACI contracts alongside firewall security policies

• Significantly simplify and reduce audit preparation efforts and costs - supports all the industry regulatory standards

Accelerating Data Center Application Deployments with Cisco ACI and AlgoSec

Thank You