Policy Management

Policies are created in the Multicloud Defense dashboard or through orchestration using the Multicloud Defense Terraform provider. The policies are stored and retained as part of the Multicloud Defense Controller database. The gateway retrieves the policy or any policy changes through a periodic heartbeat where the gateway provides the controller health and telemetry information, while also requesting if there are any policy changes that need to be applied. The gateway to controller communication is fully encrypted and established through a mutual TLS session. The heartbeats occur every 5 seconds to ensure that policies on the gateway are synchronized with the policies created or modified by the user.