Where Cisco Multicloud Defense fits
Security-led organisations standardised on Cisco tooling who want NGFW inspection as the centrepiece.
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Cisco Multicloud Defense brings Cisco’s firewall heritage to multi-cloud, managed from Security Cloud Control with gateway VMs per cloud. It solves a different problem to Telaron: deep L7 inspection and enforcement. If NGFW is the centrepiece of your design, that is Cisco’s ground, not ours.
Security-led organisations standardised on Cisco tooling who want NGFW inspection as the centrepiece.
Full next-generation firewall enforcement — deep L7 inspection, IPS, and a mature threat-intelligence pipeline behind it. Telaron does not compete here, and does not try to: we offer FQDN egress filtering, known-bad-actor lists, and some L7, with anomaly detection on the roadmap rather than shipped.
| capability | Telaron | Cisco MCD |
|---|---|---|
| Encryption & throughput | WireGuard ChaCha20, ~2.5 Gbps/core | IPSec (NGFW), per-core ceiling |
| Spoke compute | None in workload VPCs; edge tier in customer-owned central VPCs | Gateway VMs per cloud |
| Control plane | SaaS (app.telaron.io) | Cisco Security Cloud Control |
| Dynamic routing | iBGP/eBGP via FRR — you own the overlay | Static / limited BGP |
| Kubernetes required | No | No |
| Open source | Gateway data plane (Apache 2.0), Terraform provider (MPL 2.0) | No |
| Data sovereignty | Config metadata only | SaaS controller in Cisco cloud |
| Pricing model | Per-gateway tiered; Community free | Gateway-hours subscription |
Spin up the Community tier free, or talk to us about Pro and Enterprise. No agents in your workloads, no six-figure contract.