Cisco Firepower/FTD AnyConnect Validation Certificate Failur...
Received a question from a Firepower/FTD student/reader: Say you have an ASA/FTD configured with AnyConnect certificate authentication and the trustpoint applied to the firewall for SSL services has a certificate [...]
FN – 70466 – FTD High Unmanaged Disk Utilization...
If you are running FTD code 6.1, then you already are in a bad spot. However, this notice goes from 6.1.0 through 6.4.0.7 That said, most of you probably are [...]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday on 1/14/20 becomes Patch Nightmare
Microsoft’s updates on Tuesday 1/14/20 created serious vunerablitites across the board. It was SO serious that Microsoft secretly pushed out an update later that same night to the U.S. Military. [...]
Cisco Released Firepower 6.5 Code with New Intuitive Interfa...
Cisco has released a new code for their Firepower devices and the first thing you’ll notice is how they updated the login page, which is a nice change from the [...]
Cisco’s New 1600/2600/4600 FMC’s….Just how...
So… I’m writing my new Cisco CCNP Security Firepower book and just finished my Cisco FMC chapter….in that chapter I create a table outlining the difference between a 1000/2500/4500 and [...]
Cisco Firepower FMC Quarterly Cleanups. Do this!
When I’m working at a customer I try and setup as much task management by going to System>Tools>Scheduling, and using all the Add Task programs I can. I have to [...]
How to Fix a Stuck Cisco Firepower/FTD Deployment
Did you ever deploy on your Cisco Firepower/FTD environment and then see something like this? First, understand that this does not mean your deployment failed, but instead the actual task [...]
Best Free & Public DNS Servers (Valid June 2019)
Need to find or figure out the latest and greatest DNS servers? The best free public DNS servers include Google, Quad9, OpenDNS, Cloudflare, CleanBrowsing, Verisign, Alternate DNS, and AdGuard DNS. [...]
Cisco Announces New Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Devices &...
The long awaited replacement for the 5506 model is finally here and is called the Firepower 1010, and can now be found on their web site. This model has been [...]
R1.3 of the Cisco ASA to FTD Migration tool is out and it...
Here are some of the new features added to this release: IPv6 support Flexibility to clear CSM Inline grouping Selective Migration for NAT and routes (Do not migrate option) REST [...]
RDP Error 0x609: Cisco Releases New Snort Update 5/24/19; Br...
A whole bunch of RDP users starting losing connections with RDP Error 0x609 when traversing Cisco Firepower Snort because of an update that was sent out by Cisco Talos. Here [...]
Yet Another Awesome Undocumented Hidden Feature in the new C...
Okay, so in my last couple blogs I mentioned some undocumented or hidden “features” in the new code. Here is a reminder of the two I already mentioned: If you [...]