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AWS re:Invent 2023 - Teradata secures 100s of AWS workloads with Cisco Multicloud Defense (COP226)

Summary

Vishal from Cisco and Stacy from Teradata discuss how Teradata secures its AWS workloads using Cisco Multicloud Defense.
The session covers the challenges of implementing zero trust in the cloud due to its dynamic nature, including scaling, failover, and multi-region and multi-cloud operations.
Cisco Multicloud Defense offers a cloud-native policy and infrastructure solution that simplifies security and increases efficacy.
Teradata's use case demonstrates significant improvements in provisioning time, policy updates, and system upgrades, as well as a 35% cost reduction.
The solution provides consistent policy enforcement, automatic scaling, and hands-off management, which is crucial for operations teams.
The partnership between Teradata, Cisco, and AWS has led to a successful implementation of Cisco Multicloud Defense in Teradata's Cloud Lake and Vantage Cloud Enterprise platforms.
Cisco Multicloud Defense is part of Cisco's broader security portfolio, which includes a suite of cloud security products managed through Cisco Defense Orchestrator.

The dynamic nature of the cloud environment poses unique security challenges that traditional on-premises solutions cannot address effectively.
Zero trust security in the cloud requires a different approach to application identification, moving away from static IP addresses to dynamic identifiers like cloud tags.
Cisco's solution emphasizes the importance of policy-driven security, where a single policy can dictate networking, security services, and infrastructure resiliency.
Teradata's experience with Cisco Multicloud Defense highlights the importance of agility and scalability in cloud security solutions, as well as the need for minimal operational overhead.
The partnership between Cisco and Teradata showcases how collaboration can lead to tailored security solutions that meet the specific needs of large-scale cloud deployments.
Cisco's comprehensive security portfolio, including the Multicloud Defense, demonstrates the company's commitment to providing integrated, cloud-native security solutions for complex multi-cloud environments.
The session underscores the trend towards SaaS-delivered control planes and PaaS-delivered security gateways, which align with the cloud's elasticity and self-service models.