Securely Managing Cisco Firepower Devices

Out of Band Management

  • Network dedicated for the management of network devices

  • Access in/out of network restricted by ACLs

    • Define which traffic will need to leave network

    • Some management networks will be completely self contained

  • Size of management network determined by

  • size of the organization

Firepower Threat Defence

  • Deployed in routed mode

  • Firepower Device Manager (FDM)

    • Management of local device

  • Firepower Management Center (FMC)

    • External device used to manage multiple FTD appliances

Configuring the Initial Management of a Firepower Threat Defense Appliance

This is self-explanatory when booting the device for the first time

Finishing the Setup of the FTD Using the GUI

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