topic Re: Firewall Ftd hardening using fmc in Network Security

Firewall Ftd hardening using fmc

muhammad-abbas — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:35:28 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have deployed ftd 3105 and ftd 3120 firewalls HA pair. Managing these HA through FMC 1700 physical appliance . I have to deploy minimum security baseline on these if someone knows about any documents which have complete navigation and policies of MSB it will helpful.

Thanks

Re: Firewall Ftd hardening using fmc

Kasun Bandara — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:47:37 GMT

hi @muhammad-abbas , you can refer to cisco guide in below link for normal hardening.

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Hardening Guide, Version 7.6 - Cisco

but there are specific hardening standers for different countries and regions based on security governance bodies. one of such examples is CIS benchmark system. you can use that kind of hardening guide to finetune the baselines.

Re: Firewall Ftd hardening using fmc

muhammad-abbas — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:12:19 GMT

here in this guide we have suggestions to do, i think there might be some strict configs that we have to configure according to CISA. let me know if there is some doc like i am thinking.

Re: Firewall Ftd hardening using fmc

Kasun Bandara — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:05:58 GMT

@muhammad-abbas hi, yes. you can refer to CIS benchmark is that kind of document. there is 2 levels. L1 is considered as must follow unless strict limitation. L2 is advanced and recommend if its doable.