Lab Environment
For Cisco Secure Application, there is no need to deploy any additional agent. As shown in the diagram below, the feature is embedded into existing APM agent. It has negligible overhead and doesn’t impact end-users.
Though not relevant to this lab exercise, Cisco Secure Application works well alongside other security solutions like WAF, NGWAF, NGFW, etc, that protect at the perimeter.
Next
We’ll walk through some hands-on exercises with Cisco Secure Application.