There has been massive growth in the encryption of Internet traffic. The sheer volume of encrypted traffic has made it difficult to gain visibility into threats. Cisco Secure Firewall inspects web traffic to block network intrusions. The shift from monolithic apps to multicloud, containerized and microservices-based development increases the need to be secured. Cisco also provides automation capabilities in dynamic application environments for policy coordination, rapid vulnerability identification, and workload microsegmentation, says Bill Mabon, Senior Manager of Network and Application Security Products.”]