Cisco Secure Workload Zero Trust Virtual Hands-On Workshop

Exclusive Training for US Federal Government IT Professionals
📅 Workshop Details
    •    Date: September 14, 2026
    •    Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM CDT
    •    Target Audience: US Federal Government IT, Cybersecurity, and Network Operations Personnel
    •    Solution Focus: Cisco Secure Workload 

🛡️ Executive Summary & Overview

Federal agencies are mandated to accelerate Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) adoption to protect critical government assets against evolving cyber threats. This virtual hands-on workshop is customized for Federal IT professionals looking to operationalize micro-segmentation, gain deep workload-level visibility, and leverage automation for threat mitigation.

In this interactive session, participants will use Cisco Secure Workload to protect a live multi-tier invoicing application. With software agents already installed on the target workloads, attendees can immediately dive into automated policy discovery, runtime telemetry analysis, and zero-trust enforcement without spending valuable lab time provisioning infrastructure. The workshop also give attendees valuable hands-on experience before evaluating the solution in their own environment

At the end of the session there will be an engaging discussion about how this would fit in your network.  A sample protected application can be NASA's Access Management System (NAMS) from a network, user, and host perspective.

🧭 Hands-On Workshop Agenda

1. UI Navigation & Visibility
    •    Portal Tour: Navigate the centralized Security Cloud Control platform. 
    •    Deep Telemetry: Examine how software agents capture granular runtime telemetry, including CPU monitoring, process snapshots, and real-time vulnerability tracking.  
2. AI-Driven Policy Discovery
    •    Application Dependency Mapping (ADM): Leverage unsupervised machine learning to automatically analyze application behaviors and communication patterns. 
    •    Automated Recommendations: Learn how Secure Workload uses flow data to suggest precise, least-privilege security policies.  
3. Policy Analysis & Visualization
    •    Micro-Segmentation Mapping: Visualize complex application dependency boundaries.
    •    Interactive Views: Utilize "List" and "Graph" views to interpret complex connection rules, validate communication channels, and confirm compliance paths.

4. Zero-Trust Enforcement
    •    Traffic Simulation: Test discovered allow-list policies against live application traffic in a staging environment. 
    •    Escaped Flow Analysis: Identify unauthorized or unexpected communications ("escaped" flows) and transition smoothly from passive monitoring to active, line-rate enforcement.

5. Agentless Cloud Segmentation
    •    Hybrid Cloud Extension: Scale Zero Trust security to public cloud environments (such as AWS and Amazon EKS).
    •    Native Integration: Discover how to extend protection without deploying host-based agents by leveraging native cloud infrastructure controls.

6. Advanced Forensics & Security Dashboards
    •    Threat Monitoring: Navigate the Security Dashboard to track vulnerability scores, CVE details, and network anomalies. 
    •    MITRE ATT&CK Alignment: Correlate forensic events with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to quickly identify, isolate, and halt "bad actors" in real-time.

7. Live Discussion

    •  Real-world use case walkthrough

🎯 Key Takeaways & Federal Value

By the end of this 4-hour workshop, participants will know how to:

    •    Implement a comprehensive Zero-Trust micro-segmentation model across hybrid and multi-cloud federal architectures. 
    •    Systematically reduce the attack surface for both legacy servers and containerized applications. 
    •    Streamline compliance reporting and automated threat detection to meet stringent federal cybersecurity requirements.