When you first setting up a Cisco ASA firewall, one of the most common requirements is to allow internal hosts to be able to ping the Internet. It is not only for the convenience that a network administrator to check [...]
Cisco’s latest additions to their “next-generation” firewall family are the ASA 5506-X, 5508-X, 5516-X and 5585-X with FirePOWER modules. The new “X” product line incorporated the industry leading IPS technologies, provides next-generation Intrusion Prevention (NGIPS), Application Visibility and Control (AVC), [...]
For centralized management model, enterprise customers may manage multiple FirePOWER installs through a single management console. Before Cisco’s acquisition, SourceFire called it Defense Center. Cisco also called it FireSignt Management Console I will cover configure and manage ASA FirePOWER Module [...]
As mentioned previously, there are two ways to configure and manage ASA FirePOWER module using ASDM and FirePOWER Management Center. We’ll cover in both options. Configure and Manage ASA FirePOWER Module using ASDM Preparation Step 1: Enable HTTP service on [...]
In this example, we’ll step through Cisco ASA 5506-X FirePOWER configuration example and activate the FirePOWER module in a typical network. We used ASA 5506-X running code 9.5(2) and ASDM version 7.5(2). Before proceed, please make sure the followings are [...]
Since Cisco’s acquisition of SourceFire in 2013, Cisco has incorporated one of the best leading Intrusion Prevention System (IPS/IDS) technologies into its “next-generation” firewall product line. Cisco’s ASA firewalls with Sourcefire’s FirePOWER Services are designed to provide contextual awareness to [...]
As virtualization technologies become mature, with the support of super-fast, extremely robust server hardware, everything seems can be virtualized. In a modern datacenter, you’ll see the entire IT infrastructure being virtualized, including servers, workstations, network devices, storage, PBX and so [...]
In some cases you may prefer installing Cisco VIRL on its dedicated hardware without running on a virtual machine. Most personal users do not have the luxury of access to business grade VMWare infrastructure. Some are studying for CCNA, CCNP [...]
As the internet bandwidth becomes cheaper, organizations have upgraded their primary circuits to higher capacity circuits with lower cost. Some choose to keep their legacy service provider as a backup circuit. BGP is enabled on the Customer Edge (CE) routers [...]
One of the advantages of working with Cisco VIRL network simulation is that all the information regarding a simulation including network topology, router configurations and node interconnectivities are stored in a single XML file. The file has an extension of [...]