Overview of Cisco Security Cloud Control
Security Cloud Control is a security platform that allows you to manage your security products and achieve security outcomes from a single integrated interface.
Integrating security products in the platform is a streamlined experience. After purchasing your subscriptions to Cisco security products, you receive a single email, with a single claim code for all the subscriptions you purchased. Entering the claim code in your new Security Cloud Control organization provisions all your products to Security Cloud Control simultaneously.
Within Security Cloud Control, user and group management occurs at the platform level. Roles are assigned to these users and groups to define their privileges for administering Security Cloud Control and the integrated products.
Navigation between products and tools is intuitive and standardized with a common platform menu and toolbar for all integrated products.
Security Cloud Control provides these additional core services to all integrated products on the platform:
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Platform Management: Common services such as managing role-based access control, claiming subscriptions and standardized regional deployment of product instances are provided by Security Cloud Control. By centralizing these functions, Security Cloud Control ensures a consistent user experience in provisioning and managing access across all Cisco security products managed from the platform. Administrators reach these common services from the Platform Management menu in the main navigation bar of Security Cloud Control.
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AI Assistant: The Cisco AI Assistant in Security Cloud Control is designed to streamline security operations by providing AI-driven insights, automation, and contextual guidance. It assists administrators in managing security policies, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing configurations across Cisco’s security products, including Firewall, Duo, , and Secure Access. By leveraging natural language processing and cross-platform intelligence, the assistant enhances efficiency, accelerates incident response, and simplifies security workflows.
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Global Search: The ability to search for values across products in the platform.
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Shared Objects: Creating and managing objects that can be shared across devices and policies.
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Unified documentation portal: A documentation "Help" experience where all documentation is accessible in one portal.
Products You Can Integrate with Security Cloud Control
From Security Cloud Control, you can manage all of these security products:
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AI Defense
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Security Cloud Control Firewall Management
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Multicloud Defense
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Secure Access
Products You Can Launch from Security Cloud Control
From Security Cloud Control, you can launch these security products. After launch, these products operate as standalone products and you cannot manage them through Security Cloud Control. You can only claim or deactivate the licenses of such products from Security Cloud Control.
In the Security Cloud Control toolbar, click the nine-dot menu
to launch these products:
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Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
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Cisco Secure Endpoint
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Cisco Duo
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Cisco XDR
Products and Solutions Supported by Security Cloud ControlCisco Security Cloud Control for Government
Currently, these are the products you can integrate with Security Cloud ControlCisco Security Cloud Control for Government.
AI Defense: AI Defense addresses risks for users and providers of AI. Using network visibility and enforcement points in the Security Cloud Control, AI Defense adds detection and enforcement measures to discover sanctioned and unsanctioned AI workloads, applications, models, data, and user access across your distributed cloud environment. For organizations that develop and deliver AI-powered services, AI Defense detects vulnerabilities in your AI models before they're delivered. For your running AI applications, AI Defense guardrails intercept rapidly evolving threats, including prompt injections, denial of service, and data leakage. See AI Defense Documentation for more information.
Security Cloud Control Firewall Management: Security Cloud Control Firewall Management (formerly Cisco Defense Orchestrator) is a cloud-based security policy manager that simplifies and unifies policy across your Cisco firewalls and other devices. See Firewall in Security Cloud Control Documentation for more information.
Multicloud Defense: Multicloud Defense provides a simplified and highly automated approach to multicloud security. This solution allows organizations to manage and secure their multicloud environments using a single SaaS delivered control plane, and centralized or distributed PaaS-delivered data plane architectures. Multicloud Defense provides continuous visibility, unified protection and dynamic policy updates across all major cloud providers, thereby eliminating the need for separate point solutions for solutions for each cloud provider. See Multicloud Defense Documentation for more information.
Secure Access: Cisco Secure Access is a cloud-based platform that provides multiple levels of defense against internet-based threats. Connect securely to the internet, SaaS apps, and private digital resources from your organization's network or roaming off-network. Using policy rules, configure and enforce security controls on collections of resources, users, and devices. See Secure Access Documentation for more information. Secure Access subscriptions also include the Identity Intelligence integration via Security Cloud Control at no additional charge—this does not include access to the standalone Identity Intelligence dashboard. For more information, see Integrate Cisco Identity Intelligence with Secure Access.
Cisco XDR (Extended Detection and Response): Cisco XDR, is a cloud-native, extensible security solution designed to simplify security operations and accelerate incident response. It collects and analyzes telemetry from multiple sources—including endpoint, network, firewall, email, identity, and DNS—to detect sophisticated threats with enriched context and threat intelligence from Cisco Talos.
Cisco XDR prioritizes threats based on potential risk and impact, reduces false positives, and provides AI-driven guidance and automation to streamline investigations and remediation. This unified approach enables Security Operations Center (SOC) teams to act faster, improve productivity, and build security resilience by integrating both Cisco and third-party security tools in a multi-vector, multi-vendor environment. See Cisco XDR Help Center for more information.




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