With the expanded Cisco partnership, IBM TLS can now support the lifecycle of these Cisco firewalls, whether physical, cloud or virtual, by planning, designing, purchasing, installing, de-installing, and supporting them, helping clients to optimize their core or AI infrastructure, according to Atul Dhall, vice president of product management and global solution design for TLS.
“As organizations migrate workloads to the cloud, virtual firewalls can provide scalable and flexible protection, in addition to integrating seamlessly with cloud-native tools, offering enhanced visibility, and helping to simplify management across complex hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructures,” Dhall wrote in a blog about the news. “By emphasizing virtual firewall capabilities, enterprises can fortify their cybersecurity defenses and address the risk of breaches in an evolving threat landscape.”
This is not the first time IBM’s TLS group has worked with Cisco. In 2024, TLS added support for Cisco’s software-defined networking and SD-WAN packages and rolled out the IBM Network Health Check for Cisco networking service. That service offering promised to optimize infrastructure, reduce the time spent on hardware support, and provide insight into what needs attention in the network infrastructure.
