A lot of IT people these days are faced with an emergency requirement to massively scale up existing Remote Access VPNs (RAVPN) or create entirely new ones from scratch. This can be daunting in itself…
It is often overlooked that a Firepower sensor is capable of very rich logging of a lot of interesting metrics. These can beside the normal SecOps use-cases also provide valuable insight into the health of…
Setting up a quick ELK stack for use with Ciscos Firepower Threat Defense has never been easier. In this article I will showcase setting up a docker version of the ELK stack, together with the…
No Homelab is complete without a state-of-the-art Identity and Policy Engine. Of course there is an official install guide available here which is written for supported Environment ect., but there are always us, the odd few…
Updated: Word has it that the procedure described herein has be deprecaded in later releases (see comment below) When working with lab environments it is often an issue obtaining the proper licenses for the devices….
There are several ways of authenticating toward the management interface of a Palo Alto Networks Firewall (PANW). The authentications options boils down to three distinct ways namely (or mixes of the three): Local Username, Local…
A common use-case I encounter is the ability to dynamically update object lists referenced in policies at security perimeters (Firepower, FTD or others). This can come in one of two flavors: Security threat intelligence (aka…
Installing the FTD 6.2.2 update on a ASA 5515X I noticed that Cisco released FTD 6.2.2 yesterday (05-sep-2017), why I naturally had to put it in my Demolab right away in order to see if…
First look When you first log into the FTD for FDM with a browser you will see a nice graphical interface of the units with proper color coding (i.e. green means good and orange mean…
Intro I have been playing a little with a ASA 5515X appliance in the lab and have tried running the latest FTD code (6.2) with both stand-alone management (known as Firepower Device Manager) and the…