Cisco Multicloud Defense User Guide

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Cisco Multicloud Defense User Guide

Asset and Inventory Discovery

Discover cloud assets with Multicloud Defense for enhanced protection. Ensure inventory visibility across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP. View the security posture of your resources. Evaluate security groups and apply rules to mitigate risks.


Discovery is an important component of Multicloud Defense's approach of "Discover, Deploy, and Defend".

Discovery provides real-time visibility into the current resources deployed in any onboarded cloud accounts. In addition, it provides an interface into VPC flow logs and DNS logs to give a complete picture of your cloud deployment. The Multicloud Defense Controller, through the permissions granted to the IAM role (AWS and OCI), AD app registration (Azure) or the service account (GCP), periodically crawls your cloud resources, and also keeps tab on the changes, to maintain an "evergreen" inventory model of the resources.

Using the Discovery tab, you have the ability to see the attributes of your resources and how they are interconnected. Multicloud Defense collates this information into a succinct view of the security posture of all your resources with respect to the configuration and with context to the traffic flows.