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Cisco February 27, 2020

Using Firepower logs for uncommon and overseen purposes

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…

Cisco, Security February 25, 2020

Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) for Cisco Firepower

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…

Cisco, Security February 19, 2020

Virtual Firepower (FTDv) automation deployment

While for long time firewall has typically been something associated with large metal appliances sitting on the outskirts of an infrastructure. More and more are looking into virtualizing also this part of their infrastructure. The…

Security December 6, 2017

Palo Alto Networks Firewall Hardware Internals

A lot of effort go into creating spec sheets and publish various numbers on what performance can be expected in order to help chose and size the right firewall model. This post tries to dive…

Security September 21, 2017

Cisco ISE 2.3 as authenticator for Palo Alto Networks Firewalls

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…

Security September 18, 2017

Cisco FMC Intelligence Feeds and Threat Intelligence Director

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…

Security September 6, 2017

Upgrading Cisco FTD 6.2.1 to 6.2.2

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…

Security August 20, 2017

Cisco FTD 6.2 – With Firepower Device Manager

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…

Security October 14, 2014

PAN-OS 6.1, A Sneak Peak

The PAN-OS 6.1 (running the Palo Alto Networks firewall) has recently been released. Here are my initial thoughts on the release. Short story… it is not a revolution.. more like a good piece of evolution….

Security October 4, 2014

Cisco ASA with Firepower Services

I have had my hands on Ciscos new addition to their ASA firewall/IPS portfolio, the ‘Cisco ASA with Firepower Services’. And as with all technology there are both pros and cons to mention in this initial release…

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