COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS A FIREWALL IN NETWORK SECURITY
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passive discovery
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identity discovery
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user discovery
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active discovery
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cisco Firepower User Agent is a passive authentication method; it is an authoritative identity source, meaning user information is supplied by a trusted Active Directory server.
Detailed explanation-2: -Firepower can learn about the users, applications, and hosts on the network. Firepower uses this for monitoring, access control, customising IPS rules, and other functions. The IPS rule customisation is of particular interest. FMC builds a list of your hosts, their operating systems, and the applications they run.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) is the industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused NGFW. It delivers comprehensive, unified policy management of firewall functions, application control, threat prevention, and advanced malware protection from the network to the endpoint.
Detailed explanation-4: -Firepower appliances communicate using a two-way, SSL-encrypted communication channel on port 8305/tcp.