How TrueFort Compares to Cisco Secure Workload
TrueFort speeds the journey to enforcement
Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Cisco Tetration) requires that users manage integrations with multiple Cisco products and install more agents to scale across a network. Integrations within the portfolio make logical sense, but many teams struggle to scale visibility beyond a few hundred servers and with years of effort. With TrueFort, users can leverage any CrowdStrike or SentinelOne agents already installed to map environments of tens of thousands of servers in a matter of hours, and initiate enforcement in weeks.
TrueFort vs. Cisco Secure Workload
- Rapid deployment, unmatched visibility
With TrueFort, CrowdStrike and SentinelOne customers simply follow a few steps and the telemetry from tens of thousands of installed agents begins mapping to applications and their corresponding workloads. Within only a few hours, users can discover unexpected traffic that isn’t explained by network devices alone.
- Continuous and real-time behavior analytics
The TrueFort Platform applies machine learning to all aspects of observed workload behavior to provide a trusted baseline of process, account, command, and network activity – including full recording of historical actions. This clarity provides security teams and application owners with the shared understanding needed to confidently adopt the platform’s suggested segmentation policies.
- Powerful, customizable enterprise reporting
With TrueFort, all analyzed behavior is available within a robust reporting platform with templated reports for a variety of audiences. From auditors to architects and threat hunters, dashboards are easy to customize to match each organization’s unique environment and use cases.
TrueFort
Cisco Secure Workload
TrueFort
Cisco Secure Workload
Deployment
Accelerated Visibility
Simple setup process with CrowdStrike or SentinelOne configuration to ingest telemetry across thousands of servers in one day
A Series of Complexities
Requires configuration of multiple products and deploying new agents for workloads already protected
Behavior Analytics
Continuous and Unified
Access baselines from machine learning across network, identity, process, and enterprise application
Fragmented
No common view of workload activity beyond network transmissions and hostnames
IT/OT Segmentation
Integrated
Align network telemetry and asset intelligence from Armis with application behavior mapping to expand segmentation policies
Limited
Traditional firewall visibility and enforcement for OT only. No integrated intelligence in Cisco Secure Workload
Kubernetes Segmentation
Seamless
Analyze container activity and enforce segmentation policy from the same console as legacy servers
Separated and Complex
No common data plane between Secure Workload and Kubernetes security tools
Forensic Timeline
Continuous and Contextual
Dive deep into any historical activity from network connections down to the command line execution from one interactive investigation dashboard
None
No visibility into a continuous chain of events tying network and server activities
Incident Response
Real-time and Interactive
Respond immediately incident by blocking a network connection, killing a process, or disabling a user
None
No interactive response capability—only future policy definition
Service Account Protection
Behavioral Policy Enforcement
Review service account historical trends and easily tailor policy for each application’s behavioral profile
None
No visibility in accounts or ability to set policy based on user
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
Robust
Alert security teams when any critical files are modified, including details of what changed and by whom
None
No ability to view or alert on critical file changes
Compliance
Centralized
Access 100+ customizable enterprise reports spanning business continuity, frameworks like CIS, threat hunting, divestitures, and more
Limited
Very little reporting beyond proprietary scoring charts—separate Cisco products needed for customization
TrueFort vs. Cisco Secure Workload
TrueFort redefines cybersecurity by offering rapid deployment and unmatched visibility, leveraging existing CrowdStrike or SentinelOne agents for comprehensive mapping across thousands of servers in days, enabling enforcement in weeks. Unlike Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Cisco Tetration), which is hampered by complex integrations and scalability challenges, TrueFort provides continuous, real-time behavior analytics, powerful customizable reporting, and robust file integrity monitoring, ensuring a seamless, scalable solution for advanced threat detection, incident response, and compliance across enterprise environments.
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