Cisco FirePOWER Management Center Appliance – Allowing Domain Authentication
Jun28

Cisco FirePOWER Management Center Appliance – Allowing Domain Authentication

KB ID 0001117  Problem Once deployed, authentication is handled by the appliances own internal user database, in larger organisations this is a little impractical. So the ability to create an Active Directory Group, and delegate access to Firesight to members of that group is a little more versatile. Solution I’m making the assumption that the appliance does not already have external authentication setup at all, so I’ll...

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ASA Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM)
Feb20

ASA Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM)

KB ID 0001107  Problem Both the 5506-X (rugged version and wireless), and 5508-X now come with a FirePOWER services module inside them. This can be managed from either ASDM* (with OS and ASDM upgraded to the latest version), and via the FireSIGHT management software/appliance. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links *UPDATE: All ASA ‘Next-Gen’ firewalls can now have their Firepower Service Module managed...

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Cisco FireSIGHT – Enable Active Directory (LDAP) Authentication

KB ID 0001102 WARNING this is for older versions of the FirePOWER Management Platform, go to the following link for newer versions Cisco FirePOWER Management Appliance – Allowing Domain Authentication Problem To save you creating multiple users on your FireSIGHT appliance, and assigning roles to them you can utilise your existing Active Directory. In fact FireSIGHT does a good job of enabling granular administration based on AD...

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