Cisco this week expanded its Tetration Analytics system to let users quickly detect software vulnerabilities and more easily manage the security of the key components in their data centers. Introduced in 2016, the Cisco Tetration Analytics system gathers information from hardware and software sensors and analyzes the information using big data analytics and machine learning to offer IT managers a deeper understanding of their data center resources. The idea behind Tetration includes the ability to dramatically improve enterprise security monitoring, simplify operational reliability and move along application migrations to Software Defined Networking. Cisco said another key driver behind the technology is to give customers a single tool to collect consistent security telemetry across the entire data center and analyze large volumes of data in real time. In a multi-cloud enterprise, Tetration can lock-down tens of millions of whitelist policy entries across thousands of applications, Cisco said. The new release (Version 2.3) of Tetration software brings a focus on protecting application workloads. Workload protection According to Yogesh Kaushik, senior director of product management at Tetration Analytics, protecting workloads requires a holistic approach to understand everything running and installed on the workload, as well as communications between the workloads to establish a clean baseline. “This has to be done across thousands of workloads in an average data center. You have to discover each component of the application and map out the dependencies before making any changes to the security policy so applications don’t break,” Kaushik stated. Tetration now provides a real-time inventory… [Read full story]
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