The Cisco Firepower Management Center (formerly FireSIGHT Management Center) is the administrative nerve center for select Cisco security products running on a number of different platforms. It provides complete and unified management of firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection. The Management Center is the centralized point for event and policy management for the following solutions:
- Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
- Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services
- Cisco Firepower Next-Generation IPS (NGIPS)
- Cisco FirePOWER Threat Defense for ISR
- Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)
The Cisco Firepower Management Center provides extensive intelligence about the users, applications, devices, threats, and vulnerabilities that exist in your network. It also uses this information to analyze your network's vulnerabilities. It then provides tailored recommendations on what security policies to put in place and what security events you should investigate.
The Management Center provides easy-to-use policy screens to control access and guard against known attacks. It integrates with advanced malware protection and sandboxing technology, and it provides tools to track malware infections throughout your network. It unifies all these capabilities in a single management interface. You can go from managing a firewall to controlling applications to investigating and remediating malware outbreaks with ease.
Enterprise-Class Management
The Cisco Firepower Management Center discovers real-time information about changing network resources and operations. You get a full contextual basis for making informed decisions (see Figure 1). In addition to providing a wide breadth of intelligence, the Management Center delivers a fine level of detail, including:
- Trends and high-level statistics. This information helps you understand your security posture at a given moment in time as well as how it's changing, for better or worse
- Event detail, compliance, and forensics. These provide an understanding of what happened during a security event. They help improve defenses, support breach containment efforts, and aid in legal enforcement actions
- Workflow data. You can easily export this data to other solutions to improve incident response management
