A Conversaton With Murali Rathinasamy

Check out Cisco's Hybris Mesh Firewall here: https://ul.live/Hybrid-Mesh-Firewall_yt Hybrid Mesh Firewall Upcoming Events: https://ul.live/HMF-Upcoming-Events_yt Hybrid Mesh Firewall At-a-Glance: https://ul.live/Security-Cloud-Control_yt I had a great time chatting with Murali, a Senior Director of Product at Cisco, about how their Hyper Mesh Firewall architecture unifies policy management across multiple enforcement points. We totally geeked out over how this simplifies network security and AI defense, which is a solution I've personally wanted to see built for a very long time. What We Talk About: The Evolution of Firewalls: How network security has shifted from basic perimeter defense to complex internal zoning and deep packet inspection. Unified Policy Management: How Cisco’s Hyper Mesh Firewall handles the heavy lifting of centralizing rules across both Cisco and third-party vendors like Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Juniper. Agentless Zero Trust: Gaining full visibility into application dependencies and generating zero-trust policies without the immediate headache of deploying agents to every single endpoint. AI Defense & Guardrails: Discovering which AI models your users are accessing (like ChatGPT or Claude) and automatically blocking sensitive data like PII from ever reaching the LLM. Seamless User Experience: Bridging the gap between traditional VPNs and Zero Trust Network Access by using a single client to eliminate change management friction for end-users. 00:00 - Introduction and what Murali is currently working on. 01:31 - The evolution of firewalls and where Cisco's solution fits into that timeline. 04:53 - How Cisco interfaces with and manages third-party firewalls. 05:32 - What it looks like to build a policy and the user interface experience. 08:08 - Protecting against AI attacks and utilizing network segmentation. 14:20 - The "Grail" of security: translating business intent directly from stakeholders into a unified policy. 22:25 - Where to learn more about the Cisco Hyper Mesh Firewall solution and wrap up. Subscribe to the newsletter at: https://danielmiessler.com/subscribe Join the UL community at: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade Follow on X: https://x.com/danielmiessler Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmiessler/