Introduction

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management (formerly Cisco Defense Orchestrator) is a cloud-based platform that unifies and simplifies security policy management across Cisco firewalls and devices. It streamlines policy consistency, offers intuitive and advanced interfaces, and reconciles configuration changes across multiple device managers.

Manage IOS Devices with Security Cloud Control

Cisco IOS devices are network devices, such as routers and switches, that run Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS). Security Cloud Control supports Cisco IOS devices for centralized policy and configuration management.

You can onboard Cisco IOS devices using SSH. The system recognizes them as a specific device type with tailored management capabilities within Security Cloud Control. Cisco IOS devices include routers and switches that run IOS or IOS XE and have dedicated SSH management support.

You can use these features for IOS devices.

Overview of Security Cloud Control Firewall Management

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management (formerly Cisco Defense Orchestrator or CDO) is a cloud-based security policy manager that helps simplify and unify security policies across your Cisco firewalls and other devices such as Cisco IOS and SSH. The firewalls and devices can be managed from Firewall, which is listed under Products in the Security Cloud Control dashboard.

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management helps you optimize your security policies by identifying inconsistencies within them and by providing with the tools to fix them. It provides you with ways to share objects and policies, as well as create configuration templates, to promote policy consistency across devices.

Because Security Cloud Control Firewall Management coexists with Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM), it keeps track of configuration changes made by ASDM and reconciles the differences.

You can manage a wide range of devices in one place. Advanced users will also find their traditional CLI interface with some new enhancements to make management even more efficient for them.

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management also provides a guided "Day 0" experience, helping you to quickly onboard Threat Defense devices to your on-premises or Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center. It also presents you with other key features that you may benefit from and helps you enable and configure them.

Device onboarding requirements

Before you onboard a device, complete these prerequisites:

  • Complete the installation wizard.

  • License the device.

After you complete those prerequisites, use the Security Cloud Control Firewall Management onboarding wizard to onboard the device.

Refer to Onboard Devices and Services.

Keep these restrictions in mind:

  • After you onboard devices to a Security Cloud Control Firewall Management associated with an organization, you cannot migrate those devices to another organization.

  • To move devices to a new organization, you must re-onboard them to the new organization.

For a complete list of devices that Security Cloud Control supports and manages, see Supported Devices, Software, and Hardware for Security Cloud Control Firewall Management.

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Security Cloud Control Firewall Management dashboard

The Security Cloud Control Firewall Management dashboard is your central hub for monitoring and managing organization-level details across various categories. Upon logging in, you can access a customizable dashboard that offers critical insights and actions to optimize security and operational efficiency.

Customize your dashboard

Make your dashboard fit your specific needs by customizing the visible widgets:

  1. On the Home page, click Customize.

  2. Select or deselect dashboard widgets and drag and drop them to arrange in your preferred order.

Top Information

This section provides detailed insights into various tenant-level metrics. If enabled, you can view the following widgets:

  • Configuration States: Indicates the discrepancies between the configurations on your devices and those maintained by Security Cloud Control. This comparison helps identify any inconsistencies or conflicts that may exist.

    For more information, see Device Management.

  • Change Log Management: Helps you manage the change logs for precise operational control. The widget displays Completed and Pending change logs.

    For more information, see Change Logs.

  • RA VPN Sessions: Helps you monitor your Remote Access VPN sessions.

    For more information, see RA VPN Sessions.

  • Overall Inventory: Helps you monitor the health and status of all devices. The widget displays the total number of devices, categorized into Issues, Pending Actions, Other, Online and devices that are nearing or have already reached their last day of hardware support.

    For more information, see All Devices.

  • Site-to-Site VPN: Helps you manage and assess your site-to-site VPN connections. The widget displays the total number of VPN tunnels and the percentage that are Active and Idle.

    For more information, see Site-to-site VPN.

  • Accounts and Assets:

    • Helps you track and manage your multicloud accounts and resources effectively. You can launch the Multicloud Defense Controller from here.

    • Click +Add Account to add a new account.

    For more information, see Multicloud Defense Controller.

  • Top Risky Destinations: Helps you identify and monitor the top risky destinations that are granted access. The widget lists Applications and URL Categories and allows you to filter data for the last 90, 60, or 30 days. You can filter between Allowed (default) and Blocked traffic.

  • Top Intrusion and Malware Events: Helps you monitor and respond to top intrusion and malware events. The widget displays intrusion events and malware events and allows you to filter data for the last 90, 60, and 30 days. You can filter between Allowed (default) and Blocked events.

Announcements

Click the Announcements icon to view the most recent Security Cloud Control features and updates. Links to related documentation are provided if you need more information on any of the items listed.