About the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector
The Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector enables you to use service tags and categories from various cloud service platforms in Secure Firewall Management Center (management center) access control rules.
Supported connectors
We currently support:
CSDAC version/platform |
AWS |
AWS security groups |
AWS service tags |
Azure |
Azure Service Tags |
Cisco Cyber Vision |
Generic Text |
GitHub |
Google Cloud |
Microsoft Office 365 |
vCenter |
Webex |
Zoom |
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Version 1.1 (on-premises) |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Version 2.0 (on-premises) |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Version 2.2 (on-premises) |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Version 2.3 (on-premises) |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Version 3.0 (on-premises) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Secure Firewall Management Center 7.4 |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
More information about connectors:
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
For more information, see a resource like Tagging AWS resources on the Amazon documentation site.
See Amazon Web Services Connector—About User Permissions and Imported Data.
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Amazon Web Services security groups.
For more information, see a resource like Work with security groups.
See Amazon Web Services Security Groups Connector—About User Permissions and Imported Data.
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Amazon Web Services service tags.
For more information, see a resource like What are tags?.
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Cisco Cyber Vision
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Generic text list of IP addresses you specify.
For more information, see Create a Generic Text Connector.
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GitHub
For more information, see Create a GitHub Connector.
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Google Cloud
For more information, see Setting Up Your Environment in the Google Cloud documentation.
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Microsoft Azure
For more information, see this page on the Azure documentation site.
See Azure Connector—About User Permissions and Imported Data.
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Microsoft Azure service tags
For more information, see a resource like Virtual network service tags on Microsoft TechNet.
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Office 365 IP addresses
For more information, see Office 365 URLs and IP address ranges on docs.microsoft.com.
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VMware categories and tags managed by vCenter and NSX-T
For more information, see a resource like vSphere Tags and Attributes in the VMware documentation site.
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Webex IP addresses
For more information, see Create a Webex Connector.
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Zoom IP addresses
For more information, see Create a Zoom Connector.
How It Works
Network constructs such as IP address are not reliable in virtual, cloud and container environments due to the dynamic nature of the workloads and the inevitability of IP address overlap. 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.
You can collect these tags and attributes using Docker containers running on an Ubuntu, CentOS, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine. Install the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector on the Ubuntu host using an Ansible collection.
The following figure shows how the system functions at a high level.
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Install the dynamic attributes connector on a supported Linux virtual machine.
For more information, see Supported Operating Systems and Third-Party Software.
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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 adapter defined by the dynamic attributes connector receives those dynamic attributes filters as dynamic objects and enables you to use them in access control rules.
You can create the following types of adapters:
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On-Prem Firewall Management Center for an on-premises Management Center device.
This type of Management Center device might be managed by Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) or it might be a standalone.
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Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center for devices managed by CDO.
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