Security Cloud Control Firewall Management

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.

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Security Cloud Control Firewall Management licenses

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management requires a base subscription for organization entitlement and device licenses for managing devices. You can buy one or more Security Cloud Control Firewall Management base subscriptions based on the number of tenants you require and device licenses based on the device model number and the quantity. In other words, purchasing the base subscription provides you with a Security Cloud Control Firewall Management organization. For every device you choose to manage using Security Cloud Control Firewall Management, you need separate device licenses.

To onboard and manage devices from Security Cloud Control Firewall Management, you must purchase a base subscription and device-specific, term-based subscriptions based on the devices you want to manage.

Subscriptions

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management subscriptions are term-based:

  • Base: Offers subscriptions for one, three, and five years, and provides entitlement to access the Security Cloud Control Firewall Management organization and onboard adequately licensed devices.

  • Device License: Offers subscriptions for one, three, and five years for any supported device you choose to manage. For example, you can choose to manage a Cisco Firepower 1010 device using Security Cloud Control Firewall Management for three years if you purchase a three-year software subscription for the Cisco Firepower 1010 device.

When managing your firewalls with Security Cloud Control Firewall Management, you can combine Security Analytics and Logging with your Security Cloud Control Firewall Management subscription, or you can obtain Security Analytics and Logging entitlement as a separate subscription. For more information about Security Analytics and Logging subscriptions, see Security Analytics and Logging licenses.


Important

You do not require two separate device licenses to manage a high-availability device pair in Security Cloud Control Firewall Management. If you have a high-availability pair, purchasing one device license is sufficient because Security Cloud Control Firewall Management considers the pair of high-availability devices as one single device.


Note

  • Catalyst SD-WAN does not require an additional license for integration with Security Cloud Control Firewall Management. Customers with Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) or WAN Essentials licenses can use these existing licenses for integration without needing any other license.

  • Customers with Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Essentials or Advantage, as well as WAN Essentials or Advantage licenses, can use these existing licenses for integration without needing any other license. However, to access Security Analytics and Logging, a DNA Advantage (or WAN Advantage) license is required along with a separate Security Analytics and Logging license.


Note

You cannot manage Security Cloud Control Firewall Management licensing through the Cisco Smart Licensing portal.

Software Subscription Support

The Security Cloud Control Firewall Management base subscription includes software subscription support that is valid for the term of the subscription and provides access to software updates, major upgrades, and Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) at no extra cost. While software support is selected by default, you can also leverage Security Cloud Control Firewall Management solution support based on your requirement.

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management platform maintenance schedule

Security Cloud Control Firewall Management updates its platform every week with new features and quality improvements. Updates are made during a 3-hour period according to this schedule:

Day of the week

Time of day

(24-hour time, UTC)

Thursday

09:00 UTC - 12:00 UTC

During this maintenance period, you can still access your organization as well as Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center. Additionally, the devices that you have onboarded to Security Cloud Control Firewall Management continue to enforce their security policies.


Note

  • We recommend that you do not use Security Cloud Control Firewall Management to deploy configuration changes in the devices it manages during maintenance periods.

  • If there is any issue that stops Security Cloud Control Firewall Management from communicating, Cisco addresses that issue in all the affected tenants as quickly as possible, even if it is outside the maintenance window.