topic Upgrading to Firepower is a in Network Security

Best practices required for IPS.

k_sinjish — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:35:23 GMT

Hi ,

I am using cisco IPS ( Not the next gen – old model dedicate device ) , in my environment . Now as part of security practice I would like to strengthen its functionality. So as part of the hardening and fine tuning the IPS devices what are the best practices need to be done .

Regards,

Sinjish.K

I would highly recommend that

nspasov — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:28:53 GMT

I would highly recommend that you explore the options to upgrade to FirePOWER as that solution is very powerful, robust and effective.

In the meantime, feel free to reference these links:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/security/ios-intrusion-prevention-system-ips/IOS_IPS_Best_Practices.pdf

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/intrusion/network-ids-ips-deployment-strategies-2143

I hope this helps!

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Upgrading to Firepower is a

Jetsy Mathew — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:22:03 GMT

Upgrading to Firepower is a good option. Refer the following link for further info .

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/security/asa-firepower-services/at-a-glance-c45-732426.pdf

If you would like, you can have a look at the following link for one of the release note for the latest available version.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firesight/5407/relnotes/FireSIGHT-System-Release-Notes-version5407-and-5416.html