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