This blog provides an overview of the recent enhancements and new features implemented in Cisco Security Cloud Control (formerly Cisco Defense Orchestrator) over the last three months of 2024.

Cisco Security Cloud Control is a revolutionary, AI-powered management solution designed to streamline and optimize your network security infrastructure. This innovative platform unifies the Cisco Security Cloud, starting with network security, delivering a centralized, intelligent, and efficient experience.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Centralized Management: Manage your entire network security estate, including Secure Firewall Threat Defense, ASA firewalls, Multi-cloud Defense, and Hyper shield, from a single, intuitive dashboard.

• AI-Driven Insights: Leverage AI-powered assistants to proactively optimize policies, identify potential issues, and automate routine tasks, freeing up valuable time for your security team.

• Simplified Onboarding: Quickly and easily onboard new devices with a guided "Day 0" experience, accelerating deployment and reducing errors.

• Enhanced Visibility: Gain comprehensive visibility into your network security environment, including device health, performance metrics, and threat intelligence.

• Streamlined Operations: Benefit from a modern user interface, intuitive navigation, and simplified workflows to improve operational efficiency.

• Robust Security Posture: Strengthen your security posture with advanced policy analysis, anomaly detection, and automated remediation recommendations.

• Scalability and Flexibility: Scale your deployment to accommodate growing network needs, supporting up to 1000 firewalls with a single tenant.

Recent Enhancements:

• Enhanced Firewall Migration Tool

  • Cisco Security Cloud Control has released an updated version of the Firewall Migration Tool, offering a range of new capabilities to streamline your migration process:
  • Bulk PSK Updates: Efficiently update preshared keys for multiple site-to-site VPN configurations.
  • Error Handling: Choose to proceed with the migration or abort it when encountering errors in the configuration.
  • Flexible VPN Topology: Add your target threat defense device as a spoke to an existing hub-and-spoke VPN configuration.
  • Additional Features: The tool now supports various other enhancements to simplify your migration experience.

•  Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center:

Experience improved performance, reliability, and security with the latest updates.

• Multi-Tenant Portal:

• Improve Your Security Policies with Policy Analyzer and Optimizer:

Now you can easily identify and resolve potential security policy problems with our new Policy Analyzer and Optimizer tool. This innovative tool scans your firewall policies, pinpoints anomalies, and provides specific recommendations to optimize their performance.

Benefits of Using Policy Analyzer and Optimizer:

• Enhanced Firewall Performance: Optimized policies lead to faster and more efficient firewall operations.

• Improved Security Posture: By addressing policy issues, you strengthen your overall security stance.

• Simplified Policy Management: The tool provides clear guidance for making necessary adjustments.

How to Access the Tool:

1. Log in to your Firewall Management Center (cloud-delivered or on-premises, version 7.2 or later).

2. Navigate to the Insights section.

3. Select Policy Analyzer and Optimizer.

By using this powerful tool, you can proactively maintain the health and effectiveness of your security policies.

• Enhanced Firewall Migration Tool Capabilities

The Firewall Migration Tool has been upgraded to support more complex migration scenarios:

• High Availability for Threat Defense: You can now migrate configurations from a high-availability pair of Secure Firewall ASAs to a high-availability pair of threat defense devices.

• Site-to-Site VPN Topologies: The tool now supports migrating site-to-site VPN configurations from Secure Firewall ASAs to a hub-and-spoke VPN topology on threat defense devices.

These enhancements streamline the migration process and provide greater flexibility when transitioning to threat defense technology.

• Add Firepower Chassis to Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center

You can now easily incorporate Firepower 3100, 4100, 4200, or 9300 chassis into your cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center using Cisco Defense Orchestrator.

Key Features:

• Simplified Management: Centralized management of your Firepower chassis through the cloud-based management center.

• Separate Management Connection: The chassis and management center maintain a dedicated management connection via the chassis MGMT interface.

• Enhanced Monitoring: Receive comprehensive health alerts for your chassis directly within the management center.

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