About the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector
The dynamic attributes connector enables your access control policy to adapt in real time to the changes in public and private cloud workloads and business-critical software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. It simplifies policy management by keeping rules up to date without tedious manual updates and policy deployment. Customers require policy rules to be defined based on non-network constructs such as VM name or security group, so that firewall policy is persistent even when the IP address or VLAN changes.
Supported connectors
We currently support:
CSDAC version/platform |
AWS |
AWS Security Groups |
AWS Service Tags |
Azure |
Azure Service Tags |
Cisco APIC |
Cisco Cyber Vision |
Cisco Multicloud Defense |
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GitHub |
Google Cloud |
Microsoft Office 365 |
vCenter |
Webex |
Zoom |
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Version 1.1 (on-premises) |
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Yes |
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Version 2.0 (on-premises) |
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Version 2.2 (on-premises) |
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Yes |
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Version 2.3 (on-premises) |
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Version 3.0 (on-premises) |
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Version 3.1 (on-premises) |
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Cloud-delivered (Cisco Defense Orchestrator) |
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No |
No |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Secure Firewall Management Center 7.4.1 |
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Yes |
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How It Works
This topic discusses the architecture of the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector.
The following figure shows how the system functions at a high level.
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The system supports certain public cloud providers.
This topic discusses supported connectors (which are the connections to those providers).
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The dynamic attributes connector is provided with Secure Firewall Management Center.
Related topics
History for the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector
Feature |
Minimum Firewall Management Center |
Minimum Firewall Threat Defense |
Details |
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Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector |
7.4.0 |
7.4.0 |
This feature is introduced. The Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector is now included in the Secure Firewall Management Center. You can use the dynamic attributes connector to get IP addresses from cloud-based platforms such as Microsoft Azure in access control rules without having to deploy to managed devices. More information:
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