Smart Licensing needs to be enabled on Firepower Management Center (FMC) in order to support Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) sensor. Once Smart License mode is enabled you may notice that your Classic License option disappeared from device configuration screen. Most likely you still have a need to add a classic …
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The Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) device supplies next-generation firewall services, including stateful firewalling, routing, Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS), Application Visibility and Control (AVC), URL filtering, and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) *. Threat Defense includes all the features of FirePOWER Services Software for ASA integrated with firewall functionality plus single management …
I was very excited when FirePOWER 6.0 came out with support for Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM). ASDM complements CLI greatly on ASA from the configuration, management, and troubleshooting perspective so I was expecting the same for FirePOWER. Components: Cisco FirePOWER: 6.0 Take note of the following requirements and limitations: …
Cisco ASA was failing SHA2 identity certificate import with the following error: Import PKCS12 operation failed. Components: Cisco ASA: 8.3(2) The issue turned out to be related to an older version of the code. After upgrade to 8.4(7)-30 certificate import was successful. Update: 9.8(4)43 – ASA reboot fixed this issue. …
In this post, I’ll write about my experience with Sourcefire 6.0 upgrade. Upgrade file became available on 11/11/2015 and at the time of writing it’s been out for a few month which is “theoretically” enough time to consider a cautious transition from 5.4.x into 6.0 environment. Components: Cisco Sourcefire Defense …