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Unboxing Cisco Firepower 1010 – Mixed feelings

Hello everyone. Today we have the honor to be the witness of the unboxing of my new Cisco Firepower 1010. I have big expectations and I will spend some time to cover all the needed basic information about this device.

At the time I am writing this post there is already a newer version of the software released (6.6). The devices are being delivered with version 6.4 and this will be the version we will see in this post. Once I’ve played around, the device will be upgraded and for sure a new post will be written regarding the new features.

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Cisco ASA 5506-X with FirePOWER services in inline mode

Hello everyone. Yes, it is 2020 and I am still speaking about ASA…

On one side I recently bought myself an ASA-5506-X with FirePOWER services, to extend my lab, to see how it works, and to do some experiments I can not do on a customer environment :). On the other side I also recently bought a Firepower 1010 to see the evolution Cisco made from ASA to ASA with FirePOWER and finally Firepower. We also have to assume that there are still a lot of ASA Firewalls out there and they will remain for a while before replacement.

At first sight, we may not find any difference between the wording Firepower and FirePOWER. But there is one… a significant one.

When Cisco mentions the word FirePOWER, then they talk about ASA-Devices with a Firepower Image on top running as a module.

In contrast to this, when Cisco speaks about Firepower then they are mentioning the Firepower Threat Defense device.

While reading this post, keep in mind that it is NOT a configuration guide. This text has been written with the simple purpose to describe the functionality, architecture and design without going too deep in detail.

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