Congratulations, you’ve purchased one of Cisco’s shiny new Next-Generation Firewalls. It’s going inspect more packets, push bits at blazing speed, and finally lockdown your disgraceful network. You’ve built your access control policy and added a ton of rules allowing traffic outside to your inside zone. Maybe you even took this…
Video Only Post In this quick part two video, I cover some basic recommendations for organizing your access control policy and add a couple base rules in. I’ll also cover how we can create IPS policies, and apply them to access control entries, within our access control policy (ACP). As…
If you’re like me, then the best way to learn something new is to get your hands dirty. Get some lab gear, boot devices up, and try different scenarios. This is as true (if not more) with Cisco’s Next-Generation Firewall, Firepower (FirePOWER?) Threat Defense. Lucky for us, at least those…
I wanted to do a quick post today about Cisco’s Firepower Threat Defense. As I’m sure most of you know, this platform is moving to (eventually) replace the ASA code we all know and love. It’s not quite there yet with some features missing that are keeping some from converting.…