I’ve done about 100’s of ASA upgrades remotely and over the console and I thought I’ve seen it all but apparently not. This time it was a remote upgrade from version 9.4.x to 9.6.2.x and nothing was out of ordinary. Components: Cisco ASA: 9.4.x > 9.6.2 I’ve followed the standard practice of …
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Recently I setup a PoC for remote users with Anyconnect client and OpenDNS. The idea is to control DNS queries on split tunnel RA VPN connection based on organization’s acceptable use policies and to protect from malicious threats on the Internet. I went with OpenDNS Virtual Appliance deployment option to …
Can I have a production ASA with FirePOWER Inline IPS to do detection of a traffic passively spanned from a switchport? It can be done with Firepower Threat Defence (FTD) appliance without losing any functionality of the production sensor as discussed here. Let’s find out if a FirePOWER can be …
When you first start working with Cisco Firepower Management Console you may be overwhelmed because of so many screens, graphs, tables, and tabs. Today I came across one simple task where the site was blocked with HTTP response page, but website category was allowed. With one block page for all, …
In Part 1 I covered OS migration from FirePOWER services to the Firepower Thread Defense (FTD) device. Next step is to join it to Firepower Management Center (FMC). On sensor execute: > configure manager add <IP address> On FMC add it under Device Management. FTD sensor uses Smart Licenses. Before …