Author: Huzeyfe Himmetoglu | Senior Network and Security Specialist

Cisco Firepower is not a lone wolf! Firepower derives its power from the TALOS intelligence team behind it and the product family shown in Figure-1 that provides it with content. Cisco has long acquired the best companies in their fields within the framework of end-to-end security approach in Figure-1 and ensured their integration. For this reason, Cisco Firepower never has to fight against endless attack methods alone. Thanks to Network Discovery, a feature I like about Firepower, it recognizes your inventory and services and optimizes IPS signatures for relevant traffic.

 

 

Cisco's Next Generation IPS and Firewall adventure begins with the acquisition of SourceFire by Martin Roesch, founder of the 2.7 billion open source intrusion detection platform SNORT, in 2013. Regardless of the continuation of this process, we can actually date Firepower's birth year to 1998, the year Snort was released. A few years after the acquisition, Cisco combined the ASA (IOS) Firewall with the SourceFire software and ran the system within the scope of FTD (Firepower Threat Defense). The anatomy of Firepower is summarized in Figure-2.

 

Cisco's series and short descriptions for use in small/medium businesses, enterprises and ISP/Datacenters are shown in Figure-3. Firepower 4100 and 9300 devices work with the chassis operating system FXOS and you can install more than one FTD in it. If you want, you can also run them as active/active or active/passive redundant. If you have ASA Firewalls and want to replace them with Firepower NGFW, you can quickly replace your operating system with FTD with the Firepower Migration Tool without changing your devices. You can access the relevant compatibility table from the link below.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/compatibility/firepower-compatibility.html

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Useful links:

FirePower
https://www.cisco.com/c/tr_tr/products/security/firewalls/index.html

Talos Web Address
https://talosintelligence.com/

Integration link with security manufacturers
https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/products/security/technical-alliance-partners.html