22. Cisco Firepower Deployment Modes

Cisco Firepower deployment modes are the methods to insert a Firepower into the network as a Firewall/IPS device or as a IPS-only device. In Firewall/IPS mode, you have the option to choose routed or transparent mode and as a IPS-only device you can choose between inline and passive mode.
We discussed routing mode and transparent mode in the previous sections. In this section, we will discuss IPS-only inline and passive modes.

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20. Cisco FTD Network Discovery Policy

Cisco FTD Network Discovery gives the capability to collects data on your organization’s network.
Which hosts exists on your network? IP address and MAC address of hosts on your network, operating system running on each host and also clients and web applications running on each host are the most important information retrieved by network discovery feature.
Network Discovery is not just for monitoring network traffic, but we can later predefine a host profile and then compare if any hosts on the network are violating the profile.

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