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Cisco® Cyber Vision enables organizations to ensure the continuity, resilience, and safety of their industrial operations by providing continuous visibility into their Industrial Control Systems (ICS) to understand their security posture, improve their industrial networks efficiency, and extend IT security to their industrial operations.
The deeper integration between IT, cloud, and industrial networks is exposing your Industrial Control Systems (ICS) to cyber threats. As you begin to capture the benefits of your industry digitization efforts and start deploying Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies, you need a cybersecurity solution to help you ensure the continuity, resilience, and safety of your industrial operations.
Cisco Cyber Vision has been specifically designed for industrial organizations to gain full visibility into their industrial networks, providing precise information on their OT security posture so they can build secure infrastructures, drive regulatory compliance, and enforce security policies to control risks.
Cisco Cyber Vision combines a unique edge monitoring architecture and deep integration with Cisco’s leading security portfolio. Built into your Cisco industrial network equipment, it can be easily deployed at scale to monitor your industrial assets and their application flows in real time. It is the ideal solution to feed your IT Security Operations Center (SOC) with OT context, so you can build a unified IT/OT cybersecurity architecture.
Table 1. Features and benefits
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Dynamic asset inventory |
Build the right security policies with a comprehensive inventory of your IT, OT and Industrial IoT assets that’s automatically generated and always up-to-date. Implement cybersecurity best practices with real-time view on your OT security posture, including vulnerabilities, risk scores, communication patterns, malicious traffic, and abnormal behaviors. Drive operational efficiency with detailed asset profiles, including vendor references, firmware and hardware versions, serial numbers, rack slot configuration, and more. |
| Network-embedded sensors |
Easily deploy OT security at scale thanks to Cyber Vision sensors embedded in select Cisco networking equipment:
● No need to deploy dedicated appliances. Gaining OT visibility is just a software feature to activate in your switches and routers, saving both CAPEX and OPEX.
● No need for additional network resources or complex network setups. Cyber Vision sensors send lightweight metadata to the Cyber Vision center, representing only 2% to 5% additional network traffic.
● Identify all OT assets with ease, even those in the lowest Purdue levels, thank to the Cyber Vision sensor running in the switches that connect them to the network.
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| Hardware and Docker sensors |
Easily deploy Cyber Vision sensors in brownfield environments when runing the sensor software in routers or switches is not possible.
● Eliminate the need to build a SPAN collection network by deploying Cyber Vision sensors within the industrial network. Install the sensor software on a Cisco IC3000 industrial compute gateway or any compute hardware running Docker and use just a short 1-hop SPAN to gain visibility from existing switches.
● Use your existing SPAN collection infrastructure to send traffic from existing switches to the Cyber Vision center where the sensor software is installed to decode traffic and extract information.
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| Zero-touch provisioning |
Automate enrollment of Cyber Vision sensors and deploy large scale infrastructures in minutes. Easily keep sensors up-to-date without any manual task or service interruption. |
| Passive and active discovery |
Cyber Vision monitors your industrial operations by passively capturing and decoding network traffic using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) of industrial control protocols. More information can be collected with active discovery that sends extremely precise and nondisruptive requests in the semantics of the specific ICS protocol at play. |
| Distributed edge active discovery |
Get comprehensive and detailed visibility on all connected assets, even those deployed in the lowest levels of the Purdue model. Because the sensor is running in switches that assets are connected to, Cyber Vision’s active discovery requests are not blocked by firewalls or Network Address Translation (NAT) boundaries. |
| Global view on all your sites |
Drive governance and compliance with detailed security information on all your industrial sites. The Cyber Vision Global Center seamlessly aggregates data from all local centers so that CISO and security teams have centralized visibility into assets and events per site and across sites. |
| Inventory reports |
Stay on top of your asset inventory with formally crafted executive summary reports showcasing meaningful visualizations and breakdowns of your assets. Customize and white-label the reports as per your needs and share it with stakeholders as a Word or PDF document. |
| Vulnerability detection |
Keep your industrial assets safe. Cyber Vision alerts you to hardware and software vulnerabilities that need to be patched. |
| Risk scoring |
Focus on immediate threats and prioritize actions to quickly improve your security posture. Cyber Vision calculates risks for each device, as well as for specific site, line or any dataset. It even provides guidance on what can be done to proactively reduce risks. |
| Map views |
Visualize the activity of your control network. Cyber Vision offers several types of maps to show your assets and their communications. Quickly spot threats and anomalies, thanks to color coding. |
| Document zones and conduits |
Easily build security policies. Cyber Vision lets you group assets into zones (production cells, buildings, substations, etc.) so operation teams can share logical network information with IT and build security policies according to ISA/IEC 62443. |
| Operational insights |
Reduce downtime and improve network efficiency. Cyber Vision monitors all OT events to spot device problems before they disrupt production and help operations troubleshoot issues faster. It identifies problematic network patterns so IT can optimize configurations and network performance. |
| OT tags |
Immediately understand the role of each device and what it is doing. Cyber Vision translates application flows into human-readable tags, so you know what is going on, even if you’re not a protocol expert. |
| Preset views |
Easily dive into your dataset by using preset and custom views that highlight what really matters to you, helping you focus your detection strategy and share targeted information with colleagues. |
| Security insights |
Quickly understand your current security status, identify anomalies and vulnerabilities, and respond to threats. Cyber Vision offers various dashboards, reports, and event histories to easily spot security issues and share information with all stakeholders. |
| Security posture reports |
Better drive OT security governance with detailed reports on the security posture of your industrial operations or any specific parts of your operations, including Remote Access reports to detect rogue remote access gateways deployed in the OT environment. |
| Intrusion detection (IDS) |
Uncover the cybersecurity threats coming from your IT network. Cyber Vision integrates the Snort IDS engine leveraging Talos® subscription rules (including Shared Object rules) to detect known and emerging threats such as malware or malicious traffic. |
| Anomaly detection |
Detect deviations from what normal process behaviors should be. Easily create multiple baselines to profile your industrial operations or focus on what is most critical to you (such as a particular asset or specific behaviors such as remote access). Deviations immediately trigger alerts. |
| Correlate IT/OT security events |
Enhance your security event management practice. Cyber Vision is pre-integrated with leading SIEM and SOAR platforms such as Splunk or QRadar, and can forward OT events and alerts to any other tool using Syslog. To avoid event fatigue, it even lets you choose which event types should be shared. |
| IT/OT collaboration |
Leverage OT knowledge of industrial assets and processes. Cyber Vision helps build a collaborative workflow between IT and OT to efficiently secure production. OT can report security events by providing additional context. IT can add custom properties to OT assets and groups to document specificities, dependencies, and stakeholders. |
| Extend IT security to OT |
Build a unified OT/IT SOC. Cyber Vision is fully integrated with Cisco IT security platforms and feeds them with rich details on OT assets and events. Creating OT security policies and remediating threats using existing IT tools is now much easier. |
| Rich integration with IT |
Easily share OT context with your IT tools. Cyber Vision comes preintegrated with third-party solutions such as ServiceNow’s OT Management, and has a rich REST API to build your custom integration. The API Explorer helps you write and test API calls via a friendly user interface and comes with code samples to get you started. |
| On-premise or in the Cloud |
Deploy where and how you prefer. On premise using a hardware or a virtual appliance, or in the cloud. Cyber Vision can be installed on Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. |
| Information assurance and compliance |
Protect your organization’s data and comply with information security standards using Cyber Vision in FIPS 140-2 mode. |
OT visibility you can deploy at scale
Security built into your industrial network
Cisco Cyber Vision’s unique edge computing architecture embeds security monitoring components within our industrial network equipment. There’s no need to source dedicated appliances and think about how to install them. There’s no need to build an out-of-band network to send industrial network flows to a central security platform. Cyber Vision enables the industrial network to collect the information required to provide comprehensive visibility, analytics, and threat detection. Network managers will appreciate the unique simplicity and lower costs of the Cyber Vision architecture for deploying OT security at scale.
Cyber Vision’s network sensors provide the flexibility for gaining visibility at scale without impacting network performance
Comprehensive visibility
Cyber Vision leverages passive and active discovery mechanisms to identify all your assets, their characteristics, and their communications. Active discovery queries are extremely precise and nondisruptive. They use the semantic of the protocols at play to gather details on all your industrial assets, including Windows-based systems. Because queries are initiated from Cyber Vision sensors embedded in Cisco network equipment forming the industrial network, they are not blocked by firewalls or NAT boundaries, resulting in comprehensive visibility.
This wealth of information on assets, communication maps, and operational and security events can be access by local OT and IT team members. It can also be aggregated in a Cyber Vision Global Center, for large organizations to gain global visibility across all sites and drive governance and compliance.
Cyber Vision leverages a nonintrusive edge architecture to offer detailed information to local and global stakeholders
Security posture
Cisco Cyber Vision combines protocol analysis, intrusion detection, vulnerability detection and behavioral analysis to help you understand your security posture. It automatically calculates risk scores for each component, device and any specific parts of your operations to highlight critical issues so you can prioritize what needs to be fixed. Each score comes with guidance on how to reduce your exposure so you can be proactive and build an improvement process to address risks.
Cyber Vision’s detection engine leverages threat intelligence from Cisco Talos, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity research team and the official developer of Snort signature files. The Cyber Vision threat knowledge base is updated every week to include the latest list of asset vulnerabilities and IDS signatures.
Operational insights
Cisco Cyber Vision automatically uncovers the smallest details of the production infrastructure: vendor references, firmware and hardware versions, serial numbers, rack slot configuration, etc. It identifies asset relationships, communication patterns, and more. Information is shown in various types of maps, tables, and reports.
Cisco Cyber Vision gives OT engineers real-time insight into the actual status of industrial processes, such as unexpected variable changes or controller modifications, so they can quickly troubleshoot production issues and maintain uptime. Cyber experts can easily dive into all this data to investigate security events. Chief information security officers have all the necessary information to document incident reports and drive regulatory compliance.
The product uses tags to highlight asset roles and communication contexts, so that any OT and IT team member can easily understand the industrial infrastructure and operational events, regardless of the asset brand or references. IT teams can then work with OT staff to drive best practices such as patching vulnerable assets, tracking default password uses, improving network segmentation, and more.
Gain operational insights into your assets, industrial processes, communication flows and your security posture
Enrich IT security tools with OT context
Cyber Vision’s detailed asset inventory and visibility into OT events provide value to both operations and IT security teams. Out-of-the-box integrations with Cisco’s security portfolio, as well as with a broad set of third-party solutions, extend Cyber Vision’s insight to risk and compliance monitoring and reporting, security policy enforcement, and much more. It extends the IT SOC to the OT domain.
Cyber Vision integrates seamlessly with leading SIEM systems such as Splunk or QRadar so security analysts can trace industrial events in their existing tools and start correlating OT/IT events. Leveraging Cyber Vision’s rich API, IT and OT teams can feed any existing tool with deep knowledge on industrial assets, network traffic, and security posture.
Cyber Vision extends your IT security operations to OT by feeding your existing tools with context on industrial assets and events
Cisco XDR
Are you seeing an abnormal behavior in Cisco Cyber Vision? Just click the “Report to XDR” button to create a case in Cisco XDR for an analyst to investigate and launch remediation via specific playbooks and custom workflows. The XDR ribbon always available on the Cyber Vision user interface makes it even easier to trigger remediation workflows and quickly contain threats. The ribbon highlights all observables Cyber Vision has detected (IP and MAC addresses, usernames, hostnames, URLs, and more) so you can easily pivot to XDR with OT context and launch detailed investigations. Cisco XDR leverages intelligence from Cisco Secure Endpoint, Secure Network Analytics, Secure Firewall, Umbrella, Talos intelligence feeds, and other connected technologies (Cisco and third party) to give you a complete view of threats and activities across your IT and OT networks.
To learn more about how Cyber Vision and Cisco XDR work together, please read the solution brief.
Cisco Secure Firewall
Network segmentation is a key pillar to securing your network and protecting critical processes. Cyber Vision can share asset groups created by control engineers with Firewall Management Center (FMC) to influence access control policies managed by Cisco Secure Firewall and restrict communications within the industrial network. Because OT asset groups are shared as dynamic objects via the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attribute Connector (CSDAC), any change made in Cyber Vision is automatically reflected in FMC, keeping rules up-to-date without tedious manual updates and policy deployment.
To learn more about how Cyber Vision and Cisco Secure Firewall work together, please read the solution brief.
For more information on using dynamic attributes in Cisco Secure Firewall policies, please read this documentation.
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Extend software-based network segmentation policies to your industrial control network and start enforcing zero trust security. Cyber Vision shares discovered hosts, protocols, communications patterns, and more with Cisco ISE through pxGrid to extend ISE’s awareness and policy enforcement into the control network. Cisco ISE can also leverage asset groups created by control engineers in Cyber Vision to automatically build secure zones and drive dynamic micro-segmentation of the industrial network. Just move an asset to another group in Cyber Vision to have ISE automatically apply the corresponding security policy to this asset.
To learn more about how Cyber Vision and ISE work together, please read the solution brief.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics
Extend behavioral analytics by looking at telemetry from your network infrastructure. Cisco Secure Network Analytics uses Cyber Vision insights to add context to the network flows it monitors and speed up incident response and forensics by pinpointing ICS assets on alarms.
REST API
Cyber Vision exposes functionality and data access through a REST API. This allows for custom integration of third-party and homegrown applications for compliance and risk reporting, system and event monitoring, dashboards, and more. The built-in API Explorer offers a friendly user interface to build your own API calls, test them, and generate code easily. Out-of-the-box integrations are available such as with ServiceNow OT Management.
Common Event Format (CEF)
Cyber Vision discovery and event data may be output in Common Event Format (CEF) syslog for consumption by any number of third-party applications such as SIEM solutions, Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms, and more. Free add-ons are available for easy integration with Splunk and QRadar.
Cisco Cyber Vision is built on a unique edge architecture consisting of multiple sensor devices that perform deep packet inspection, protocol analysis, and intrusion detection within your industrial network and an aggregation platform known as Cyber Vision Center. Cyber Vision Center stores data coming from the sensors and provides the user interface, analytics, behavioral analysis, reporting, API, and more. It may be run on a hardware appliance or as a virtual machine. The sensors are supported on the platforms listed in the table below.
Table 2. Platforms for Cyber Vision products
| Product components |
Platforms supported |
| Network sensor |
Cisco Catalyst® IE3300 Rugged Series switch (models with 4 GB RAM only) Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Rugged Series switch Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series switch Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series switch Cisco Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR8300 Rugged Series Router Cisco Catalyst 9300 and 9300X Series switch |
| Hardware sensor appliance |
Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway (IC3000-2C2F-K9) |
| Docker sensor |
Any x86 or ARM64 compute hardware supporting the Docker virtualization engine (version 27.0 minimum) with at least 8GB of RAM (2GB of dedicated RAM minimum, or 4GB if using the IDS engine). |
| Center hardware appliance |
Cisco UCS C225 M6N Rack Server |
| Center software appliance |
VMware ESXi software appliance Microsoft Hyper-V software appliance |
Cyber Vision sensor hardware specifications
Please refer to the associated data sheets for hardware specifications:
● Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway
● Cisco Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series switch
● Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Rugged Series switch
● Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series switch
● Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series switch
● Cisco Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers
● Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Router
● Cisco Catalyst IR8300 Rugged Series Router
● Cisco Catalyst 9300 and 9300X Series switch
● Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series switch
● Rockwell Stratix 5800 switch
Cyber Vision Center hardware appliance specifications
Table 3. Cyber Vision Center hardware appliance specifications
| Item |
CV-CNTR-M6N |
| Form factor |
1RU Cisco UCS C225 M6N Rack Server |
| Processors |
AMD 2.85GHz 7443P with 24 cores |
| Memory |
Eight 16GB RDIMM SRx4 3200MHz |
| RAID |
Software enabled RAID will provide RAID 1 or RAID 10 depending on number of drives |
| Internal storage |
Two or Four 1.6 TB NVMe Extreme Perf. High Endurance drives |
| Embedded Network Interface Cards (NICs) |
Dual 10GBASE-T Intel x710 Ethernet ports |
| Power supplies |
Hot-pluggable, redundant Cisco UCS 1050W AC Power Supply for Rack Server |
| Management |
Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Cisco UCS Manager |
| Rack options |
Cisco ball-bearing rail kit or friction rail kit with optional reversible cable management arm |
Please refer to the Cisco UCS C225 M6N Rack Server data sheets for additional hardware specifications.
Cyber Vision Center hardware appliance performance
Table 4. Cisco Cyber Vision Center (Standalone/Local) hardware appliance scale
| Item |
CV-CNTR-M6N |
| Max components |
50,000 |
| Max number of sensors |
300 |
| Max number of flows stored |
16 million |
Table 5. Cisco Cyber Vision Global Center scale
| Item |
CV-CNTR-M6N |
| Max components synced |
150,000 |
| Max number of registered centers |
20 |
Cyber Vision Center virtual appliance specifications
Table 6. Minimum specifications* for the Cyber Vision Center virtual appliance
| Characteristic |
Private Cloud |
Public Cloud |
| CPU |
x86 server CPU with 10 cores minimum |
x86 server CPU with 10 cores minimum |
| Memory |
32 GB minimum |
32 GB minimum |
| Storage |
1 TB SSD minimum |
1 TB SSD minimum |
| Virtualization software |
● VMware ESXi 6.x or later
● Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 or later
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● Amazon Web Services
● Microsoft Azure
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The Cisco Cyber Vision Center virtual appliance may be downloaded directly from software.cisco.com.
Cisco Cyber Vision is licensed using a recurring subscription model based on the number of endpoints monitored and is available in 1-, 3-, 5-, and 7-year terms. Licensing is available in two tiers—Essentials and Advantage—that provide different levels of capabilities to meet your particular requirements. The product uses Cisco Smart Licensing with the option for Specific License Reservation (SLR) licenses for air-gapped networks. Please note that a current subscription license includes access to Cyber Vision Center and sensor software, which may be downloaded directly from software.cisco.com.
Table 7. Licensing tiers
| Licensing levels |
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| Essentials |
Advantage |
| Inventory
● Device inventory
● Identify communication patterns
● Generate inventory reports
Vulnerability
● Identify device vulnerabilities
● Export vulnerability data
Activities
● Track control system events
Restful API
● REST API programming interface
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Includes Essentials features, plus: Security Posture
● Device Risk Scoring
● Security posture reports
● Remote access reports
Intrusion Detection (IDS)
● Snort IDS on supported sensors
● Talos community signatures (New rules may be added 30 days after release)
Behavior Monitoring
● User-created baselines for asset behaviors
● Alerts on deviations
Advanced integration
● Cisco XDR Ribbon
● pxGrid integration with Cisco ISE
● SIEM integration – Splunk, QRadar
● ServiceNow OT Management integration
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| Talos subscriber rules option for Cyber Vision IDS |
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| (Requires Cyber Vision Advantage; licensed per IDS sensor deployed)
● Talos subscription signatures, specifically curated for industrial networks
● Immediate rules availability
● 15x more rules compared to community signatures
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Endpoint license packs are available for any number of endpoints required. IDS is available on the Cyber Vision Center as well as on the Cisco IC3000 hardware sensor, the Docker sensor, the Catalyst IR8300 Rugged router and the Catalyst 9300, 9300X or 9400 switches.
Cisco Cyber Vision is available for order today. Please visit the Cisco Ordering home page for more information.
Table 8. Cyber Vision product IDs
| Product ID |
Product description |
| CV-LICENSE |
Cyber Vision subscription license |
| CV-CNTR-M6N |
Cyber Vision Center hardware appliance (Cisco UCS C225 M6N Rack Server) |
| IC3000-2C2F-K9 |
Cyber Vision Sensor hardware appliance (Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway) |
| CV-IDS-CNTR |
Talos subscriber rules license for the IDS running on the Cyber Vision Center (hardware and virtual appliance) or the Docker sensor |
| CV-IDS-IC3000 |
Talos subscriber rules license for Cyber Vision IDS on IC3000-2C2F-K9 sensor |
| CV-IDS-IR8300 |
Talos subscriber rules license for Cyber Vision IDS on Catalyst IR8300 sensor |
| CV-IDS-C9000 |
Talos subscriber rules license for Cyber Vision IDS on Catalyst 9300/9300X/9400 sensor |
Please refer to the respective data sheets for the IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway and the Cisco UCS C225 M6N Rack Server for warranty information.
Cisco environmental sustainability
Please refer to the respective data sheets for the IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway and the Cisco UCS C225 M6N Rack Server for sustainability information.
Services for planning, deploying, and support
Services provided by Cisco and our certified partners are available to help you through the assessment, design, deployment, and operational phases of your Cisco Cyber Vision project. Whether you need some expert advice, support throughout the entire project, or something in between, we, together with our partners, have the experts and expertise to help you be successful.
For more information, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/services.
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| Described in |
Date |
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| Added support for Catalyst IE9300 Rugged switches, FIPS compliance |
Version 4.1.4 |
January 2023 |
| Added details on visibility features and availability of others |
Version 4.2 |
April 2023 |
| Added support for UCS M6, Catalyst 9300X switches, and new features |
Version 4.3 |
November 2023 |
| Removed UCS M5. Added support for Cisco XDR and FMC CSDAC |
Version 4.4 |
April 2024 |
| Added support for Catalyst IR1800 Rugged routers and ZTP |
Version 5.0 |
July 2024 |
| Added Docker sensor and new features |
Version 5.1 |
December 2024 |