Learn how FlexPod makes your IT more secure

By incorporating best-in-class security technologies and innovations from Cisco and NetApp^®, FlexPod offers an industry-leading, security-first approach. Let's explore the key components of the FlexPod cybersecurity architecture.

Protect, detect, recover, verification

Protect. FlexPod provides a holistic approach to safeguarding systems, management, data, and applications. Trust is established and enforced through device hardening, micro-segmentation, least-privilege access, and an end-to-end secure value chain. FlexPod goes above and beyond by encrypting data in transit and at rest, and its Zero Trust architecture, featuring multi-admin verification and multifactor authentication, thwarts rogue actors. With FlexPod, your infrastructure is fortified against threats and your digital assets are kept secure.

Security-centered reference architectures

FlexPod is also soon adding these security-centered solutions:

• The “Secure Hardened FlexPod” RA shows best practices for leveraging security across the FlexPod stack. This solution enables you to make your FlexPod infrastructure more secure by alerting and setting features and functions in compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers to optimize full-stack security. You gain a tested, automated script to make your infrastructure more secure today.
• The “Ransomware, Protection Detection, and Recovery” RA documents the process of testing your FlexPod infrastructure through a simulation of an attack and using the recovery process. This RA shows how to recover from a breach and get your data back quickly.
• The “FlexPod with Secure Separation” RA illustrates how to use virtual divisions to split a FlexPod infrastructure into tenants that are completely independent of one another. Even if one segment is compromised, the other segments are unaffected. The infrastructure attack surface is reduced dramatically.

From the moment you start considering an infrastructure investment, you should be considering security. Just like DRAM, CPU, RU, and SSD plans, security should be top-of-mind. Only FlexPod offers the best security practices of Cisco and NetApp, verified across a wide variety of workloads. With its prevalidated blueprints and built-in security best practices, your data and applications are safe with FlexPod.

Learn more

To learn more about how FlexPod and its reference architecture portfolio can enhance your cybersecurity defenses, visit:

• www.netapp.com/flexpod
• www.cisco.com/go/flexpod

Protect your infrastructure with confidence and embrace the power of the FlexPod cybersecurity architecture.