Multicloud Defense

Multicloud Defense is a comprehensive security solution consisting of two primary components, the Multicloud Defense Controller and Multicloud Defense Gateway. These components collaborate to establish a secure multicloud environment.

Multicloud Defense currently supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle OCI cloud accounts. The range of support for these platforms varies.

Multicloud Defense offers a sophisticated, streamlined security framework harmonizing controller orchestration, gateway communication, and optimized datapath processing for robust and efficient multicloud protection.

Multicloud Defense interacts with a variety of cloud service providers. To provide a universal experience across the platforms, Multicloud Defense limits the character count when you create gateways and objects.

Gateways and objects that exist outside of Multicloud Defense prepend ciscomcd as a prefix in their names, which may cause issues if the original gateway or object name is too long.

Consider the character limitations when naming your gateways or objects inside and outside of Multicloud Defense:

Note

The values that are listed indicate the character limit for names without the prepended Multicloud Defense tag. You are not responsible for including the tag when you name the gateway or object.

We currently support all regions for any commercial cloud service provider region for AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. Refer to your cloud service provider support documentation for detailed information.

If a region is not supported, or a new region needs support, contact Cisco Support to add support for the region.

Ensure that all Multicloud Defense components are updated with the latest versions to benefit from enhancements, new features, and bug fixes. For more information about available updates and the issues addressed by each release, refer to the Cisco Multicloud Defense Release Notes.

Multicloud Defense is now hosted in Cisco Security Cloud Control. Security Cloud Control is a platform that allows you to manage your security products and achieve security outcomes from a single integrated interface. From Security Cloud Control platform, you can manage Multicloud Defense along with other Security products.

When you enroll in a Multicloud Defense, Security Cloud Control creates an account for your tenancy by default to better manage your enterprises across the board. The Security Cloud enterprise supports these cases:

1. You have purchased a license and already have a Multicloud Defense account, and

2. You have purchased a license but do not have a Multicloud Defense account.

New customers or users of Multicloud Defense can complete these steps in Security Cloud Control.

1. Create an organization. For more information, refer to the Create an Organization topic in the Organizations and Regions section of the Getting Started Guide for New Customers of Security Cloud Control.

2. Buy a subscription license. Once you purchase the license, you or the designated system administrator receives an email with a subscription claim code. Do not lose this email.

3. Claim the subscription. Enter the claim code in the Claim Subscription section of Security Cloud Control application and claim the product. You will receive a confirmation email that Multicloud Defense has been activated on Security Cloud Control. For more information, refer to the Claim Your Product Subscriptions section in the Getting Started Guide for New Customers of Security Cloud Control.

Multicloud Defense is provisioned and is available on the default landing page of Security Cloud Control. The navigation pane on Security Cloud Control contains the organization details and menu elements, and the central area contains the dashboard widgets.

Note

Customers who provision Multicloud Defense after August 6, 2025 and want to use Object Sharing will need to contact Cisco Technical Assistance Center (Cisco TAC) to enable this feature.

For existing users of Multicloud Defense migrating to Security Cloud Control, refer to the Getting Started Guide for Existing Customers of Security Cloud Control.