AWS CloudTrail vs. Cisco Multicloud Defense

Most probably it would be suitable for Finance industries, where security is at the head of the table. However, in our case for E-commerce, it's also quite suitable, since we have quite a significant amount of data and usage of AWS services. Especially with usage of AWS services, AWS CloudTrail comes into play as a heavy plus. For instance, troubleshooting any issues in AWS services is really nice. Therefore, it would be less appropriate with a small amount of AWS service usage and some basic web hosting.

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The sell key was for my company the monitoring all outgoing data and between each cloud provider which we use from all departments which keeps their data in a cloud environment. We could apply specific rules for monitoring and DPL on all traffic, which was the key feature that we were missing in the cloud solution. Also, they provide security features like intrusion prevention, antimalware, and full-path URL filtering, which are nice to have. Applying all at the start can be really time consuming but for the time we spent and how the solution help us to prevent data leave our company it was for sure worth it.

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• Logs details
• Easy implementation
• Great support

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• DLP monitoring - key item for us which helps to view if anything which should leave our environment our or even between each part of network between/inside specific clouds
• Segmentation of subnet, basic but helpful to isolate each host into their own part of single subnet and connect them, including all visibility features which are offered by Cisco defense systems
• Allow/deny rules helps us to block, monitor and logs traffic passing in each direction of our environment

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• Delay
• User interface, must send logs elsewhere to view them

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• Logs can be tricky to navigate
• GUI can sometimes be confusing
• Wish there was a better sizing recommendation for gateway deployments

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If it maintains its current direction it will be very disruptive in the cloud security space

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Ease of Use

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As of yet I havent logged a TAC case - It will be interesting to see how it is supported as a new product in the medium term

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For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does. We did not evaluate any other products.

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The ease of use, analytics, and just overall security feature set of Cisco Multicloud Defense is hard to beat. Their product is very intriguing and quite a bit similar. However, I have learned from past experiences that you get what you pay for. Cisco may be a little more pricy but it is worth it.

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• Saved us from purchasing and managing 3rd party solutions
• Satisfies Security/Governance requirements
• No upkeep/maintenance

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• Saved a lot of money on Operational Overhead. I would say we were able to save more than 10 hours every week.

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