A retailer is replacing eight branch firewalls with cloud-delivered Secure Firewall Threat Defense instances. The team needs one console to build a shared access policy for every branch, with no management VM available in the data center to stand up or patch. Which firewall management tool should the team standardize on?

Cisco Security Cloud Control, through its cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center, is the best fit because it manages Secure Firewall Threat Defense instances from a Cisco-hosted central console and supports a shared access policy across the branches without requiring the team to deploy and patch a management VM in its data center. A cloud-hosted Secure Firewall Management Center virtual appliance is a credible centralized management design and can provide common policy administration, but it still requires the team to provision and maintain a management appliance; moving that VM to a cloud provider does not remove that operational requirement. Local Device Manager administration can be paired with automation to keep configurations aligned, but it does not provide the requested single management console for building and administering the shared policy. Using Security Cloud Control while maintaining a distinct access policy for every branch meets the centralized-management and deployment constraints, but it fails the requirement for one shared policy. Exam caveat: verify current platform support and feature scope for the specific cloud-delivered FTD deployment, since management capabilities can vary by deployment type and software release. Practical check: confirm that all eight instances appear in the console and that a change to the shared policy can be previewed and applied consistently to each branch.