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Cisco Security: Layered Protection from Identity to Workloads
Combine firewall, identity, secure access, endpoint, email, workload and OT controls with clear responsibilities, and design investigation and response with XDR.

Threats keep changing. Your protection must stay ahead.
Unify identity, network, endpoint and application controls.
Protected assets, access relationships and threat scenarios establish priorities. Preventive controls, visibility and incident response are designed to reinforce each other. Technology choices account for team capacity, integration needs and organisational risk tolerance.
Security work starts with the applications and data the organisation needs to protect. Review identity, remote access, network boundaries and monitoring together. The SASE drawing below illustrates a connectivity approach; the separate AI Defense drawing addresses AI security. These references do not define one mandatory package for every organisation. Existing controls, workloads and risk priorities determine the necessary layers. Acceptance must cover denied flows and escalation to the responsible team as well as permitted access.
Select nodes to read their roles; zoom or enter full screen to follow the connections.
Select a node to read its role. Drag to pan or use the buttons to zoom.
The source shows an active/standby CPE pair and primary/secondary DCs within a Secure Access region. No cross connections or automatic product integrations are added. Cloud redundancy alone does not replace customer-device redundancy.
Select nodes to read their roles; zoom or enter full screen to follow the connections.
Select a node to read its role. Drag to pan or use the buttons to zoom.
SaaS control-plane and AI POD data-plane boundaries follow the source. The data plane initiates the port-443 connection; the gRPC stream can be bidirectional. Nested boxes represent software roles, not extra physical devices or cables.
Inventory and application dependencies establish the baseline. Architecture, capacity expectations and security rules are clarified with the relevant teams. Pilot scope, acceptance criteria and rollback steps are documented before implementation. Migration waves follow business impact; each wave compares essential access, critical application flows and monitoring evidence.
Topology, configuration ownership and maintenance procedures belong in the handover. Monitoring and escalation follow the organisation’s operating model. Product and service scope is clarified through discovery; support levels are agreed contractually. Share your requirements with Trustnet to assess practical options for your existing infrastructure.