Cisco Secure Workload

Cisco Secure Workload, formerly Tetration, is a comprehensive workload protection and microsegmentation platform engineered to secure heterogeneous application workloads across bare-metal servers, virtual machines, containerized clusters, and multi-cloud environments. The solution delivers end-to-end visibility into application traffic flows, process lifecycles, and software dependencies, enabling organizations to establish and enforce zero trust security policies dynamically without disrupting operational workflows.

The platform operates via lightweight host agents, container sidecars, or agentless network telemetry collectors, feeding granular communication data into an intelligent analytics engine hosted on-premises or delivered as a managed cloud SaaS service. Cisco Secure Workload utilizes unsupervised machine learning to map application communication graphs automatically, recommending least-privilege microsegmentation policies tailored to application topologies. The platform continuously monitors workload processes for behavioral anomalies, unauthorized file alterations, and known software vulnerabilities, enforcing security rules directly through host operating system firewalls (such as iptables and Windows Filtering Platform). It integrates seamlessly with Cisco Secure Firewall, Cisco ACI, Cisco Identity Services Engine, and DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Primary enterprise use cases include Zero Trust application microsegmentation, lateral threat movement containment, multi-cloud workload compliance auditing, and application dependency mapping for cloud migration. By decoupling security policies from underlying network topology, Cisco Secure Workload provides resilient, portable defense for modern distributed cloud applications.