Integrating Secure Firewall Management Center and Cisco Security Analytics and Logging (SaaS)

If you require additional space to store Secure Firewall Threat Defense events, you can send them to the Secure Cloud Analytics for storage using Cisco Security Analytics and Logging (SaaS), and optionally make your threat defense event data available for security analytics using Secure Cloud Analytics. Depending on the license, you can view the events in Security Cloud Control or Secure Cloud Analytics.

This integration is specifically for threat defense devices that are managed by the management center. This document does not apply to devices that are not running threat defense software, devices managed by device manager, or non-threat defense devices managed by the management center.

For more information about Cisco Security Analytics and Logging (SaaS), see Cisco Security Analytics and Logging Product Page.

Comparison of Cisco Security Analytics and Logging Remote Event Storage Options

Different options are available for storing event data externally to your management center:

On Premises

SaaS

Purchase, obtain the license for, and set up the storage system behind your firewall.

Purchase licenses and a data storage plan and send your data to the Cisco Security Cloud.

Supported event types:

  • Connection

  • Security-related connection

  • Intrusion

  • File and Malware

  • LINA

Supported event types:

  • Connection

  • Security-related connection

  • Intrusion

  • File and Malware

Supports both syslog and direct integration.

Supports both syslog and direct integration. See Comparison of Methods for Sending Events to the Cloud.

  • View all events on the Secure Network Analytics Manager.

  • Cross-launch from management center event viewer to view events on the Secure Network Analytics Manager.

  • View remotely stored connection and Security-related connection events in management center

View events in Security Cloud Control or Secure Network Analytics, depending on your license. Cross-launch from management center event viewer.

For more information, refer to the Data Purge and Storage chapter in the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Administration Guide.

Comparison of Methods for Sending Events to the Cloud

Sending via Syslog

Sending Directly

  • Requires Secure Event Connector (SEC).

  • The SEC is beneficial for high log emission rates from firewall devices. It can support up to 100,000 events per second.

  • SEC can be set up for Security Cloud Control or non-Security Cloud Control-managed devices.

  • Reduces the event processing strain on the firewall, thereby freeing its resources for the firewall function.

  • Centralization may not be possible or desirable in geographically distributed environments.

  • Requires a separate installation.

  • Ideal for branch offices as it supports geographically distributed environments.

  • Requires Smart Licensing.

    Not supported if you are using a Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem server or air-gapped deployment.

  • No separate installation or service is needed.

  • The strain on the firewall resources is relatively higher.

Requirements and Prerequisites for SAL (SaaS) Integration

The following requirements apply to both methods of sending events to SAL (SaaS).

Requirement or Prerequisite Type

Requirement

Devices and manager

Management Center managing threat defense devices

To send via syslog: version 6.4 or later

To send directly: version 7.0

The required version applies to the management center and all managed threat defense devices.

Your system must be deployed and successfully generating events.

Regional cloud

  • Determine the Cisco regional cloud that you want to use for sending firewall events.

  • You cannot merge or aggregate data in different regional clouds. To aggregate data from multiple regions, devices in all the regions must send data to the same regional cloud.

    Events cannot be viewed from or moved between different regional clouds.

  • If you use a direct connection to send events to the Cisco Security Cloud for integration with Cisco XDR, you must use the same regional cloud for this integration.

Data plan

Determine the amount of cloud storage that your system requires. For more information, see See Calculate Storage Requirements and Purchase a Data Plan.

Licensing

  • Cisco Security Analytics and Logging licenses: Any

    For licensing options and descriptions, see SAL (SaaS) Licenses.

  • Security Cloud Control licenses: No additional Security Cloud Control licensing is required.

  • Secure Cloud Analytics licenses: No additional licensing is required.

  • Management Center Licenses: No additional licensing is required.

Accounts

When you purchase license for this integration, you will be provided with a Security Cloud Control tenant account to support this functionality.

Supported event types

Intrusion, connection, Security-related connection, file, and malware events.

User roles

In management center:

  • Admin

  • Access Admin

  • Network Admin

  • Security Approver

Additional requirements when sending events directly

See Prerequisites for Direct Integration.

Additional prerequisites

See the Before You Begin or Prerequisites section of each procedure.

SAL (SaaS) Licenses

License

Details

Free trial

To get a 30 day free trial license, visit https://www.defenseorchestrator.com/provision.

Logging and Troubleshooting

Store events in the Cisco cloud, and view and filter stored events using the Security Cloud Control web interface.

(Optional) Logging Analytics and Detection

The system can apply Secure Cloud Analytics dynamic entity modeling to your threat defense events, and use behavioral modeling analytics to generate Secure Cloud Analytics observations and alerts. You can cross-launch from Security Cloud Control to a Secure Cloud Analytics portal provisioned for you, using Cisco Single Sign-On.

When you purchase a license for SAL, you will be provided access to a Security Cloud Control tenant for log viewing and a Secure Cloud Analytics instance for threat detections. Users of SAL do not need a separate Security Cloud Control or Secure Cloud Analytics license to access these two portals for the outcomes that SAL provides.

(Optional) Total Network Analytics and Detection

The system applies dynamic entity modeling to both your threat defense events and your network traffic, and generates observations and alerts. You can cross-launch from Security Cloud Control to a Secure Cloud Analytics portal provisioned for you, using Cisco Single Sign-On.

When you purchase a license for SAL, you will be provided access to a Security Cloud Control tenant for log viewing and a Secure Cloud Analytics instance for threat detections. Users of SAL do not need a separate Security Cloud Control or Secure Cloud Analytics license to access these two portals for the outcomes that SAL provides.

SAL (SaaS) licenses provide the right to use a Security Cloud Control tenant to view firewall logs and a Secure Cloud Analytics instance for analytics, without holding separate licenses for either of these products.

To purchase SAL (SaaS) licenses, contact your authorized Cisco sales representative, or see the ordering guide (link above) and look for PIDs starting with SAL-SUB.

Calculate Storage Requirements and Purchase a Data Plan

You need to buy a data plan that reflects the number of events the Cisco cloud receives from your threat defenses on a daily basis. This is called your "daily ingest rate."

To estimate your data storage requirements:

Data plans are available in various daily volumes, and in various yearly terms. See the Cisco Security Analytics and Logging Ordering Guide at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/security-analytics-logging/guide-c07-742707.html for information about data plans.


Note


If you have a SAL (SaaS) license and data plan, then obtain a different license at a later date, that alone does not require you to obtain a different data plan. If your network traffic throughput changes and you obtain a different data plan, that alone does not require you to obtain a different SAL (SaaS) license.


How to Set Up Event Data Storage in SAL (SaaS) Using Syslog

Do This

More Information

Step

Review requirements and prerequisites

See Requirements and Prerequisites for SAL (SaaS) Integration.

Step

Obtain required licenses, accounts, and a data storage plan

Contact your authorized Cisco sales representative.

Step

Set up Security Cloud Control access using multi-factor authentication

For more information, refer to the Sign in to Security Cloud Control section in Security Cloud Control's online help.

Step

Set up an on-premises Secure Device Connector (SDC) on a VMWare virtual machine

This component is required solely to enable installation of the SEC, which is the component to which your devices will send events.

Use one of the following, as described in the Security Cloud Control online help:

You can install one SEC on the same virtual machine as a Secure Device Connector, if you have one; or you can install the SEC on it's own Security Cloud Control Connector virtual machine that you maintain in your network. For more information, refer to the Secure Event Connector section in Security Cloud Control's online help.

Step

Install the Secure Event Connector (SEC) on the SDC virtual machine you just created.

This is the component to which your devices will send events.

For more information, refer to the Secure Event Connector section in Security Cloud Control's online help.

Step

Configure your management center to have managed devices send syslog events to the SEC.

Send Security Event Syslog Messages from Threat Defense Devices

Step

Verify that your events are being sent successfully

See View and Work with Events.

Step

(Optional) If you are sending connection events to the cloud and you don't want to store them on the management center, disable that storage on the management center.

In the management center online help, see information about connection events in the Database Event Limits topics.

Step

(Optional) Configure cross-launches from management center to Security Cloud Control so you can easily pivot from events displayed in management center to related events in the cloud.

See the online help in management center.

Step

(Optional) Create Security Cloud Control user accounts for colleagues to view and work with your events.

For more information, refer to the Manage Tenants and Users section in Security Cloud Control's online help.

Overview of Sending Events to SAL (SaaS) Using Syslog

The management center-managed devices generate events.

The threat defense devices send supported events as syslog messages to a Secure Event Connector (SEC) installed on a virtual machine on your network.

The SEC forwards the events to Security Services Exchange (SSE), a secure intermediary cloud service that handles cloud-to-cloud and premises-to-cloud identification, authentication, and data storage for use in Cisco cloud security products.

The SSE forwards the events to the Cisco Security Analytics and Logging (SAL) Cloud Data Store.

The Security Cloud Control Event Viewer queries SAL Cloud Data Store for events and provides the SOC analyst with additional context.

(Only with Analytics License) Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics (formerly SWC) receives the events from the SAL Cloud Data Store and provides the SOC analyst access to the analytics features of the product.


Note


Most features in the Security Cloud Control portal are not applicable to this integration. For example, Security Cloud Control does not manage your devices, so your devices are not onboarded to Security Cloud Control.


Send Security Event Syslog Messages from Threat Defense Devices

This procedure documents the best practice configuration for sending syslog messages for security events (connection, Security-related connection, intrusion, file, and malware events) from threat defense devices managed by management center.


Note


Many threat defense syslog settings are not applicable to security events. Configure only the options described in this procedure.


Before you begin

  • In management center, configure policies to generate security events and verify that the events you expect to see appear in the applicable tables under the Analysis menu.

  • Gather the syslog server IP address, port, and protocol (UDP or TCP):

    Sign in to Security Cloud Control. Then, from the user menu at the top right side of the Security Cloud Control browser window, select Secure Connectors. Click Secure Event Connector and you will see the required information at the right side.

  • Ensure that your devices can reach the syslog server(s).

  • See additional information in the "Connection Logging" chapter in the Management Center online help.

Procedure


Step 1

Sign in to your management center web interface.

Step 2

Configure syslog settings for your threat defense device:

  1. Click Devices > Platform Settings.

  2. Edit the platform settings policy associated with your threat defense device.

  3. In the left navigation pane, click Syslog.

  4. Click Syslog Servers and click Add to enter server, protocol, interface, and related information.

    Use the IP address, port, and protocol that you gathered from Security Cloud Control above.

    EMBLEM format and secure syslog are not supported for this integration.

    If you have questions about options on this page, see the "Configure a Syslog Server" topic in the management center online help.

  5. Click Syslog Settings and configure the following settings:

    • Enable Timestamp on Syslog Messages

    • Timestamp Format

    • Enable Syslog Device ID

  6. Click Logging Setup.

  7. Make sure Send syslogs in EMBLEM format is NOT selected.

  8. Save your settings.

Step 3

Configure general logging settings for the access control policy (including file and malware logging):

  1. Click Policies > Access Control.

  2. Edit the applicable access control policy.

  3. Click Logging.

  4. Select FTD 6.3 and later: Use the syslog settings configured in the FTD Platform Settings policy deployed on the device.

  5. (Optional) Select a Syslog Severity.

  6. If you will send file and malware events, select Send Syslog messages for File and Malware events.

  7. Click Save.

Step 4

Enable logging for Security-related connection events for the access control policy:

  1. In the same access control policy, click the Security Intelligence tab.

  2. In each of the following locations, click Logging (logging icon) and enable beginning and end of connections and Syslog Server:

    • Beside DNS Policy.

    • In the Block List box, for Networks and for URLs.

  3. Click Save.

Step 5

Enable syslog logging for each rule in the access control policy:

  1. In the same access control policy, click the Rules tab.

  2. Click a rule to edit.

  3. Click the Logging tab in the rule.

  4. Enable both beginning and end of connections.

  5. If you will log file events, select Log Files.

  6. Enable Syslog Server.

  7. Verify that the rule is "Using default syslog configuration in Access Control Logging."

    Do NOT configure overrides.

  8. Click Add.

  9. Repeat for each rule in the policy.

Step 6

If you will send intrusion events:

  1. Navigate to the intrusion policy associated with your access control policy.

  2. In your intrusion policy, click Advanced Settings > Syslog Alerting > Enabled.

    Verify that the policy is using the default settings configured for access control logging.

  3. Click Back.

  4. Click Policy Information in the left navigation pane.

  5. Click Commit Changes.


What to do next

  • If you are done making changes, deploy your changes to managed devices.

How to Set Up Event Data Storage in SAL (SaaS) Using a Direct Connection

This section describes how to set up event data storage in SAL (SaaS) using a direct connection.

How Does It Work

The following diagram shows how the direct integration works.

The management center-managed devices generate events.

The threat defense devices send supported events to Security Services Exchange (SSE), a secure intermediary cloud service that handles cloud-to-cloud and premises-to-cloud identification, authentication, and data storage for use in Cisco cloud security products.

The SSE forwards the events to the Cisco Security Analytics and Logging (SAL) Cloud Data Store.

The Security Cloud Control queries SAL cloud data store for events and provides the SOC analyst with additional context in the Event Logging page.

(Only with Analytics License) Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics (formerly SWC) receives the events from the SAL Cloud Data Store and provides the SOC analyst access to the analytics features of the product.

Key Components of This Integration

Component

Description

Threat Defense

A next generation firewall with capabilities such as protection from malware and application-layer attacks, integrated intrusion prevention, and cloud-delivered threat intelligence.

Management Center

An administrative nerve center for select Cisco security products running on multiple platforms. It provides unified management of threat defense software for port and protocol control, application control, IPS, URL filtering, and malware protection functions.

Security Services Exchange

A secure intermediary cloud service that handles cloud-to-cloud and premises-to-cloud identification, authentication, and data storage for use in Cisco cloud security products.

Security Cloud Control

A cloud-based multidevice manager you can use to manage security policy changes across various security products. This platform enables the efficient management of policies in branch offices and other highly distributed environments to achieve a consistent security implementation.

In direct integration, both the management center and its managed devices get onboarded to the Security Cloud Control tenant. This integration connects the management center to a suite of Cisco cloud services. When the management center is onboarded to Security Cloud Control, you can view its managed devices, view managing network objects, and cross-launch to management center UI to manage associated devices and objects.

Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics (formerly Secure Network Analytics Cloud)

A cloud platform that applies dynamic entity modeling to threat defense events, generating detections based on this information. This provides a deeper analysis of telemetry gathered from your network, allowing you to identify trends and examine anomalous behavior in your network traffic.

Prerequisites for Direct Integration

Prerequisite Type

Requirement

General requirements for sending events to SAL (SaaS)

In addition to the requirements in this table, you must satisfy the items in Requirements and Prerequisites for SAL (SaaS) Integration and subtopics.

Licensing

Register your management center with the Cisco Smart Software Manager.

In the management center web interface, click System () > Smart Licenses, and verify that:

  • The Usage Authorization status is Authorized.

  • The Product Registration status is Registered.

Keep in mind that:

  • This integration is not supported under a evaluation license.

  • Your environment cannot be using a Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem server (formerly known as Smart Software Satellite Server) or be deployed in an air-gapped environment.

Account

  • You must have administrator privileges for the Cisco Smart Account from which your products are licensed.

    To determine your Smart Account user role:

    1. Go to https://software.cisco.com.

    2. Click Manage Smart Account.

    3. Select a Smart Account in the top-right area (above the Help link) of the page.

    4. Click the Users tab.

    5. Search for your User ID.

  • Your management center account must have one of the following user roles:

    • Admin

    • Access Admin

    • Network Admin

    • Security Approver

    To determine your user role, click System () > Users in the management center web interface.

  • Your Security Cloud Control account must have one of the following user roles:

    • Admin

    • Super Admin

Connectivity

The management center and managed devices must be able to connect outbound on port 443 to the Cisco cloud at the following addresses:

  • North America cloud:

    • api-sse.cisco.com

    • mx*.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • eventing-ingest.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • defenseorchestrator.com

    • edge.us.cdo.cisco.com

  • EU cloud:

    • api.eu.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • mx*.eu.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • eventing-ingest.eu.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • defenseorchestrator.eu

    • edge.eu.cdo.cisco.com

  • Asia (APJC) cloud:

    • api.apj.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • mx*.apj.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • eventing-ingest.apj.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • apj.cdo.cisco.com

    • edge.apj.cdo.cisco.com

  • Australia

    • api.aus.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • mx*.aus.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • eventing-ingest.aus.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • aus.cdo.cisco.com

  • India

    • api.in.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • mx*.in.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • eventing-ingest.in.sse.itd.cisco.com

    • in.cdo.cisco.com

Set Up Event Data Storage in SAL (SaaS) Using a Direct Connection

Configure the Management Center (version 7.1 and earlier) to Send Events to Security Services Exchange

If your management center version is 7.1 or earlier (except version 7.0.2 to 7.0.X), follow this procedure to configure your management center to have the managed threat defense devices send events directly to SSE. If your management center version is 7.0.2 to 7.0.X, follow the steps in Configure the Management Center (version 7.2 and later) to Send Events to Security Services Exchange.

Before you begin

In the management center web interface, do the following:

  • Go to the System > Configuration page and give your management center a unique name to clearly identify it in the Devices list in the cloud.

  • Add your threat defense devices to the management center, assign licenses to them, and ensure that the system works correctly. Create the necessary policies and ensure that the generated events appear as expected in the management center web interface under the Analysis tab.

Procedure

Step 1

In the management center web interface, click System > Integration.

Step 2

In the Cisco Cloud Region widget, from the Region drop-down list, choose a regional cloud, and click Save.

Note

 

If the management center is already registered to the selected regional cloud, the Save button appears as inactive.

The region that you select in this step is also used for the Cisco Support Diagnostics and Cisco Support Network features, if applicable and enabled.

Consider the following points to choose the regional cloud:

  • When possible, use the regional cloud nearest to your deployment.

  • Data in different clouds cannot be aggregated or merged.

  • If you need to aggregate data from multiple regions, devices in all regions must send data to the same regional cloud.

  • You can create an account on each regional cloud and the data on each cloud remains separate.

Step 3

In the Cisco Cloud Event Configuration widget, configure the management center to send events to SSE.

  1. Click the Cisco Cloud Event Configuration slider to enable the configuration.

  2. Enable or disable the types of events that you want to send to SSE.

    Note

     
    Multiple integrations can use the events you send to the cloud. See the following table:

    Integration

    Supported Event Options

    Notes

    Security Analytics and Logging

    All

    High priority connection events include:

    • Security-related connection events.

    • Connection events related to file and malware events.

    • Connection events related to intrusion events.

    Cisco XDR

    Depending on your version:

    • Security-related connection events.

    • Intrusion events.

    • File and malware events.

    Even if you send all connection events, Cisco XDR support only security-related connection events.

    Note

     

    Cisco XDR is a separately licensed product. It requires an additional subscription beyond the licenses required for Cisco Secure Firewall products. For more information, see Cisco XDR Licenses.

  3. Click Save.

Step 4

Click Save.


What to do next

Launch Security Services Exchange

Configure the Management Center (version 7.2 and later) to Send Events to Security Services Exchange

If your management center version is 7.0.2 to 7.0.X or version 7.2 and later, follow this procedure to configure your management center to have the managed devices send events directly to SSE.

Before you begin

In the management center web interface, do the following:

  • Go to the System > Configuration page and give your management center a unique name to clearly identify it in the Devices list in the cloud.

  • Add your threat defense devices to the management center, assign licenses to them, and ensure that the system works correctly. Create the necessary policies and ensure that the generated events appear as expected in the management center web interface under the Analysis tab.

  • Enable SecureX or Cisco Security Cloud integration to allow your devices to send firewall events to the cloud.

Procedure

Step 1

In your management center, navigate to Integration > SecureX for management center versions 7.2.0 through 7.4.X, or to Integration > Cisco Security Cloud for management center version 7.6.0 and later.

Step 2

(Optional) Choose a regional cloud from the Current Region drop-down.

Consider the following points to choose the regional cloud:

  • When possible, use the regional cloud nearest to your deployment.

  • You cannot merge or aggregate data in different regional clouds. To aggregate data from multiple regions, devices in all the regions must send data to the same regional cloud.

  • You can create an account on each regional cloud and the data on each cloud remains separate.

Step 3

Check the Send events to the cloud check box.

Step 4

Choose the event types that you want to send to the cloud.

Note

 
Events that you send to the cloud can be used for multiple integrations, as shown in the following table.

Integration

Supported Event Options

Notes

Security Analytics and Logging

All

High priority connection events include:

  • Security-related connection events.

  • Connection events related to file and malware events.

  • Connection events related to intrusion events.

Cisco XDR

Depending on your version:

  • Security-related connection events.

  • Intrusion events.

  • File and malware events.

Even if you send all connection events, Cisco XDR support only security-related connection events.

Note

 

Cisco XDR is a separately licensed product. It requires an additional subscription beyond the licenses required for Cisco Secure Firewall products. For more information, see Cisco XDR Licenses.

Note

 
  • If you enable Intrusion Events, the management center device sends the event data along with the impact flag.

  • If you enable File and Malware Events, in addition to the events sent from the threat defense devices, the management center devices send retrospective events.

Step 5

Click Save.


What to do next

Launch Security Services Exchange

Link Smart or Virtual Accounts on Security Services Exchange

To integrate products registered under different licensing Smart Accounts (or Virtual Accounts) into a single view in the cloud, you must link those licensing accounts to the account that you use to access SSE.

Before you begin
  • To link licensing accounts, you must have administrator-level Smart Account or Virtual Account privileges for all of the licensing accounts (from which your products are licensed) and for the account you use to access SSE.

  • If you have linked accounts already for use with Cisco XDR, you do not need to link them again for SAL (SaaS).

Procedure

Step 1

Launch Security Services Exchange.

Step 2

In the top-right corner, click the Tools () button, and choose Link Smart/Virtual Accounts.

Step 3

Click Link more accounts.

Step 4

If prompted, sign in using your Cisco.com credentials.

Step 5

Select the accounts to integrate with this cloud account.

Step 6

Click Link Smart/Virtual Accounts.

Step 7

Click OK to continue.

Step 8

Verify that your management center and its managed devices appear under the Devices tab.


What to do next

Link Security Cloud Control Accounts on Security Services Exchange

Link Security Cloud Control Accounts on Security Services Exchange

You must merge your Security Cloud Control account with the account that is associated with the device in SSE. Keep in mind that if you have accounts on more than one regional cloud, you must merge accounts separately for each regional cloud.

Before you begin
  • Ensure that your Security Cloud Control account has Admin or Super Admin privileges.

  • In Security Cloud Control, do the following to generate a new API token for your account:

    1. Sign in to the Security Cloud Control account which you want to merge.

    2. Choose the tenant account to merge.

    3. From the user menu in the top-right corner of the window, select Settings.

    4. In the My Tokens section, click Generate API Token or Refresh.

    5. Copy the token.

      For more information about API tokens, see API Tokens section in the Security Cloud Control online help.

Procedure

Step 1

Go to your Security Services Exchange admin portal. For more information, see Launch Security Services Exchange.

Step 2

On the top-right corner, click the Tools () button, and choose Link CDO Account.

Step 3

Paste the token that you copied from Security Cloud Control.

Step 4

Verify that you are linking the accounts that you intended to link, and click Link CDO Account.


What to do next

Configure Cloud Services on Security Services Exchange

View and Work with Events

To view and search your events in the cloud:

Procedure


Step 1

Sign in to Security Cloud Control.

Step 2

From the navigation bar, select .

Step 3

Use the Historical tab to view historical events data. By default, the viewer displays this tab.

Step 4

To view the live events, click the Live tab.

For more information, refer to the View Events in Security Cloud Control section in the Security Cloud Control online help.


View and Work with Events in Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics

To view and search your events in Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics:

Procedure


Step 1

Sign in to the corresponding Security Cloud Control regional cloud using the credentials for the account to be merged.

Step 2

From the navigation bar, click Monitoring > Security Analytics.

The Stealthwatch Cloud portal opens in a new browser tab.

Step 3

(One-time Activity) To ensure seamless flow of events, before using the Event Viewer, do the following in the Stealthwatch Cloud portal:

  1. Verify whether Secure Cloud Analytics is integrated with the correct Security Cloud Control tenant. To view the Security Cloud Control tenant, click Settings > Sensors.

  2. Add the subnets that you want monitor to Secure Cloud Analytics. To add subnets, click Settings > Subnets.

For more information, see the Secure Cloud Analytics online help.

Step 4

To view events, click Investigate > Event Viewer.

For more information, see the Secure Cloud Analytics online help.


FAQs

Where can I find more information about SAL?

See also the SAL Getting Started and Frequently Asked Questions.

Do I need to onboard my devices to Security Cloud Control?

If you are sending events using a direct connection, both the management center and its managed devices get onboarded to the Security Cloud Control tenant. When the management center is onboarded to Security Cloud Control, you can view its managed devices, view managing network objects, and cross-launch to management center UI to manage associated devices and objects.

If I use Cisco XDR, do I need to merge my Security Cloud Control account?

Only if you are sending events directly to the cloud using the process described in How to Set Up Event Data Storage in SAL (SaaS) Using a Direct Connection.