Cisco Secure Equipment Access Quick Start Guide for Industrial Routers

Prerequisites for enabling SEA

Updated: June 13, 2025

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Highlight the essential prerequisites required to onboard IR routers to Secure Equipment Access (SEA).

You must meet the following prerequisites before enabling SEA on industrial routers:

Ensure you have a valid IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) organization (cloud tenant). If you don’t have one, send a request to mailto:iotod-account-request@cisco.com.
Confirm you have SEA System Admin roles in the organization.
Verify that the routers are running Cisco IOS XE version 17.15.1 or later.
Ensure the IR routers have an active Internet connection to us.ciscoiot.com or eu.ciscoiot.com, depending on the IoT OD cluster used.

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