Choosing a Firewall

Choosing a Firewall Firewalls are tools designed to protect computer systems from hacking, intrusion, unauthorized access, and other attacks. Firewalls have gone through many evolutions to become what we have now. But how many years have firewalls been created?! Firewalls have been around since...

Cisco FTD Features

Cisco FTD Features Cisco Secure portfolio is consisted of various range of devices assisting enterprises to provide needed security considerations within their networks. Cisco Secure Firewalls (Formerly Cisco Firepower) are the NGFWs using their powerful built-in Cisco FTD features to provide...

Activating PLR License on Cisco FMC

Activating PLR License on Cisco FMC Cisco FMC (Firepower Management Center) allows you to assign licenses to managed devices and manage licenses for the system.  A single Firepower Management Center can manage both devices that require Classic licenses and devices that require Smart Licenses....

What is XDR

What is XDR? While endpoints are a critical component of the attack surface it’s really a small part of the big picture that makes up our network. Modern networks have IoT devices, cloud applications, firewalls and many other areas that must be considered that brings us to XDR or extended...

Cisco Firepower 4100 and Firepower 9300 Overview

Cisco Firepower 4100 and Firepower 9300 Overview   As Cisco has introduced its next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and in this article we are going to take a look on these products and see what are their main architectures, features and capabilities. Essentially, it is important to know what...

Cisco ESA Smart Licensing

Smart Licensing Overview and Best Practices for Cisco Email and Web Security (ESA, WSA, SMA) Introduction This document describes the activation process, definitions, and troubleshooting of the Smart Licensing Service on ESA/SMA/WSA. Prerequisites Components Used The information in this...