Unify policy management across your hybrid network
Automate network security policy management across the data center, automating the provisioning of security policies across the ACI fabric and multi-vendor security devices connected to the ACI fabric.
Easily access the benefits
The app in the ACI app Center makes the integrated solution easily accessible from the APIC user interface. The AlgoSec app for ACI provides visibility into the security and compliance posture of the ACI fabric, enables contract connectivity troubleshooting, and automates security policy changes for firewalls connected to the ACI fabric.
Securely accelerate risk and compliance
Proactively assess risk in Cisco ACI contracts and recommend changes needed to eliminate misconfigurations and compliance violations.
The benefits
See how Cisco ACI users benefit from AlgoSec
Intelligent Automation for Cisco ACI contracts
Policy migration example from VMWare NSX-T distributed firewall policies to Cisco ACI contracts
Modernize your network and harness the power of nexus & Cisco ACI with AlgoSec
Cisco baseline compliance
AlgoSec's optimization of cisco firewall policies
Cisco regulatory compliance
Migrate to Cisco nexus 9000 and modernize your network
AlgoSec compliments and expands nexus 9000’s capabilities to provide full visibility of the entire hybrid multi-vendor network, and enables network security policy automation, compliance, and security policy enforcement
Description and further info
Provision application connectivity
Securely provision, maintain and decommission connectivity required by business applications. By automatically mapping application-connectivity requirements to the underlying network/cloud infrastructure, AlgoSec accelerates application delivery and minimizes outages while enforcing security and compliance across the hybrid data center/cloud environment.
See and understand complex network security policies
AlgoSec provides visibility and analysis of complex network security policies across virtual, cloud, and physical environments to simplify security operations, including policy cleanup, troubleshooting, auditing, and risk analysis. Security and operations teams can simply and automatically optimize the configuration of Cisco firewalls, routers, and SDN solutions to ensure security and compliance.
Automate security policy changes
AlgoSec automates the security policy change management process and delivers hands-free policy push for Cisco firepower and ASA firewalls, IOS routers, layer-3 switches, and Cisco ACI. By eliminating guesswork through intelligent change management workflows, AlgoSec helps operations and security teams save time, avoid manual errors, and reduce risk.
Get the most out of your ACI investment
AlgoSec’s uniform security policy management transcends legacy networks, cloud, and WAN all the way to your ACI fabric, delivering full security visibility across the different estates that comprise your network. AlgoSec brings firewalls and the ACI fabric into a single-pane-of-glass for comprehensive management and an automated workflow to execute and assess the impact of changes. AlgoSec enables zero-touch changes end-to-end by automatically creating contracts on ACI and updating security policies on firewalls in the data center and at its perimeter.
Micro-segmentation and policy enforcement
AlgoSec leverages Cisco secure workload (formerly Cisco tetration) as well as other data sources and sensors to discover application flows by quickly learning how applications use the network. AlgoSec automatically generates whitelist policies based on discovered connectivity and pushes them to various security constructs (firewalls, ACI contracts) to enforce east-west filtering. AlgoSec also enhances security by ensuring consistent and continuous end-to-end implementation of micro-segmentation policy across the entire network.
Ease the migration to firepower
With the AlgoSec solution, you can easily migrate existing firewall rulesets to Cisco firepower. The solution maps and cleans the existing network security policy ruleset, automatically translates the rules to firepower and pushes them with zero-touch to firepower devices (via FMC). as part of the migration process, AlgoSec also performs what-if risk analysis and provides full documentation of changes.
Supported Cisco products
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco ASA series firewalls
Including virtual versions for Amazon Web Services, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and Firepower Services
Cisco PIX security appliance
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center
Cisco secure firewall threat defense manager
Formerly Cisco Firepower Management Center