FortiGate IPS (IDS)
KB ID 0001783 Problem If you want to employ the IPS service of a FortiGate firewall then you need a license for that privilege. At the time of writing you can get IPS as part of the following subscription licenses; Enterprise Protection SMB Protection (Only on firewalls SMALLER than 100F) Unified Threat Protection (UTP) Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) But Forti love to change the names of things, so double check with your vendor....
Cisco FTD: AMP/URL Filtering/Threat Detection and AVC
KB ID 0001686 Problem This brings me to the end of my recent FTD articles. Although this is not a complete run though of all the capabilities, it will point you in the right direction to enable; AMP Inspection. URL Filtering. IDS/IPS Inspection. AVC Inspection. Solution Each of these is a ‘Licensed Feature’ which means it’s going to cost you. Not only that, but you need to have the licences in your Cisco Smart...
Cisco FirePOWER is Blocking an Application
KB ID 0001286 Problem A few weeks ago I installed a 5525-X firewall for a client, and set it up as follows; ASA Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM) And all was well, then a week later I got an email… One of our teachers is doing a project with MATHS and ICT involving bitcoin. Basically, he has something called BITCOIN CORE WALLET installed and it used to work with the old Firewall. I’ve installed it on my work laptop and taken...
Deploy Cisco FirePOWER Management Center (Appliance)
KB ID 0001263 Problem You have been able to manage your firewalls Internal SFR module for while using the ASDM Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM) For most people that’s fine, but if you have a lot of FirePOWER devices to manage that does not scale well. In those cases you should use theFMC (FirePOWER Management Center). Here ‘Im going to use the Vmware virtual appliance, (at time of writing there is no Hyper-V version)....