Mission: Your First "Zero-to-One" Deployment – Cipherscale Support Center

Abstract

Describes the customized goal-driven onboarding process.

Overview

When you first sign in to Cipherscale, the platform operates in Guided Onboarding Mode. Rather than presenting a complex dashboard, the interface is minimized to focus entirely on your immediate security goal. The AI orchestrates a custom workflow, revealing only the necessary navigation tools as you reach specific milestones.

Defining Your Goal

Upon entry, the Copilot Pane is your primary workspace. The Navigation Menu is restricted to "Teams" to ensure a focused setup.

Select a Prompt Catalyst or enter your intent in the Intent Bar.

Example:"Secure access to private apps on AWS for employees in the USA."

Note: Your choice here dictates the UI's future state. For example, if your goal is SaaS-only, the Private Access and Internet Access menus will remain hidden to keep your workspace clean.

The Milestone Workflow

Once your intent is submitted, the AI plans a multi-step workflow and displays the Progress Bar in the Copilot Pane with a list of milestones. Each milestone represents a critical phase of your configuration journey.

As the AI initiates the workflow, it will pause for Action Validation when a decision requires admin authority.

Automated Execution: Many steps are handled by the AI, some may require you to provide names and values for some configuration parameters.
Visual Progress: Completed steps are indicated with a strikethrough in the Progress Bar.
Adaptive Navigation: As milestones like "Saas Applications" or "Gateways" are finalized, the corresponding icons will appear in the Navigation Menu, granting you access to those specific management areas.

Finalizing and "Unlocked" State

Once the final milestone is struck through in the Progress Bar, the onboarding phase is complete. The onboarding phase can be skipped by clicking Skip Onboarding at the bottom of the progress bar.

The Overview: The Copilot Pane transitions from a guided wizard to its persistent state, ready for day-to-day operations displaying the Overview section with the Detail Pane
Persistence: The configurations made during this "Zero-to-One" flow are now visible in the Data Grids of the newly unlocked sections of the Navigation Menu.

Example Goal-based Onboarding

1. On first sign in to your Cipherscale space, you will see a minimal left navigation menu and the AI Copilot in onboarding mode. Scroll down, select one of the onboarding Prompt Catalysts, or type in the Intent Bar.

2. Admin > A prompt was typed in the Intent Bar that says, "i want to protect SaaS applications salesforce.com and zendesk.com using allow listing"

3. AI Copilot > Planned and presented the required onboarding milestones for confirmation. Admin > Clicked Confirm for Action Validation.

4. Admin > A prompt was typed in the Intent Bar that says, "skip gateway deployment for now." to skip the first milestone.

5. Copilot > Skipped gateway deployment, proceeds to create SaaS Application for Zendesk.com, and asks for confirmation. Admin > Clicked Confirm

6. Note that 'SaaS Access' becomes available in the navigation menu, and the Register a SaaS Application milestone is struck through in the progress bar due to the SaaS Application creation.

7. Admin > Entered prompt, "user john@test.com should be in tech support user group and that user group should have access to Zendesk only from desktop operating systems from USA" into the Intent Bar

8. Copilot > After planning, the AI Copilot asked for confirmation of the Tech Support group. Admin > Clicked Confirm.

9. Copilot > Next, confirmation for the user creation is requested. Admin > Clicked Confirm.

10. Copilot > Confirmation for the creation of an admission rule to allow only desktop OS from USA is requested. Admin > Clicked Confirm.

11. Onboarding can be skipped anytime by clicking 'Skip Onboarding.'

Troubleshooting

If a milestone stalls:

Look at the Progress Bar to see which specific step is not struck through.
Prompt the AI to provide a corrective suggestion.
Once you fix any external issue (like a cloud firewall rule), type "Retry" in the Intent Bar.

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