Training Lab for Darken the Skies customer event. 

You have been brought in to help PseudoCo, a multi-billion-dollar corporation headquartered in London, England. Established more than 30 years ago, PseudoCo includes services, manufacturing, retail, sales, and e-commerce as critical components of its business. 

PseudoCo has 50,000+ full-time and contract employees who are spread over hundreds of locations worldwide. They typically run three types of offices:

• A single headquarters campus
• Regional sites
• Branch offices

In addition, a growing percentage of PseudoCo’s workforce is hybrid or fully remote.

Project 'Meteor' 

PseudoCo's project Meteor was created to modernize their firewall estate due to a proliferation of applications, the rise of AI technologies, and an increasingly mobile workforce which continues to expand the attack surface.

PseudoCo chose Cisco's Hybrid Mesh Firewall because it is a highly distributed security fabric managed under a single interface (Security Cloud Control) that protects applications no matter where they live. It makes it easy for them to reduce the attack surface, prevent compromise, and stop lateral movement in their data center, cloud, campus, and factory.

Project Meteor has been broken up into 3 key phases to reduce disruption to the workforce:

Phase 1 Network Zone Based Segmentation & DC Edge: Login to Cisco Security Cloud Control, onboard physical firewalls, create policy to identify applications, simplify branch connectivity and configure Policy Based Routing

Phase 2 Cloud Edge: Login to Cisco Security Cloud Control, enable cloud visibility, gather DNS flow logs, shared objects and setup tagging

Phase 3 Macro/Micro Segmentation: Login to Cisco Security Cloud Control and configure policy to protect application workloads

You have been assigned to the firewall modernization project 'Meteor' to configure and deploy the new Hybrid-Mesh Firewall solution PseudoCo has purchased from Cisco.