This lab covers the key tasks required to bring a newly installed FMC and FTD to an operational state. It is intended to walk the user through the various tasks required to ensure you have a functional and secure firewall.

There are a number of scenarios available which are outlined below. Users should start at the beginning which will take you through initial setup of the FMC, device registration, zone and interface setup, routing and NAT policies. You can then proceed to configuring threat protection such as Discovery policy, Intrusion policy using Snort 3, Malware & File policy, Security Intelligence, Decryption policy and finally Access Control rules and advanced settings.

To accomplish these labs, we will use the dCloud lab environment. There are a number of VMs deployed including Firewall Management Center (FMC), FTD devices, as well as Windows Domain Controllers and other Windows and Linux hosts. There are also CSR routers to simulate various internal network segments in a typical organization.

List of Lab Scenarios

• Initial Configuration
  • FMC configuration
  • Network Object creation and Variable Set
  • Security Zones
  • Basic Access Control
  • Device registration
  • Platform settings
• Network Configuration
  • Interface, Routes and NAT
• Threat Configuration
  • Network Discovery policy
  • Malware & File policy
  • Decryption policy
  • Intrusion/Network Analysis policy
• Access Control
  • Access Control Policy Settings
  • Rules
  • Encrypted Visibility Engine