Introduction

Cisco introduces next-generation security technologies in the unified Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. It offers the Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS), Advanced Malware Protection (AMP), and many more features—all in a single software image.

This book provides best practices, demonstrates configurations, analyzes debugs, and illustrates GUI screenshots from real-world deployment scenarios. It empowers you to configure your own Firepower system with confidence. The book summarizes complex operations in a simple flowchart, and presents many diagnostic tools that allow you to investigate any potential technical issues by yourself. In other words, it could serve you as a “personal ...

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