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Firepower vs. NGIPS vs. FireSight vs. FirePower Management Center


It’s not easy to understand the distinction between all of these terms: Firepower, NGIPS, FireSight, and FirePower Management Center.

Firepower is the term Cisco uses for most of the products aquired from Sourcefire.

FMC

l Firepower Management Center aka Firesight Management Center aka Defense Center.

l Firepower Management Center has been re-branded two times, it’s all the same.

l Central Management for firepower devices (NGIPS, ASA Firepower Module, FTD)

NGIPS

Dedicated IPS appliance / IPS component of the firepower solution (also used on ASA Firepower module and FTD)

ASA with Firepower Services

ASA with software/hardware module running Firepower services. (= two different images running on the same box. Traffic is redirected to firepower module for layer 7 inspection)

FTD 

Firepower Threat Defense is the new unified image combining ASA software and firepower software into a single image. (Not full feature parity to ASA yet)

NGFW

NGFW is the term used for firewalls that provide features up to layer 7 including IPS, AMP, URL Filtering, User Identity Integration etc... it’s basically just a marketing term used by vendors and is used for both ASA with Firepower Services and the new Firepower Appliances with run FTD in the Cisco world.

Info from https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/intrusion-prevention-systems-ids/firepower-vs-ngips-vs-firesight-vs-firepower-management-center/td-p/2975375 

More info https://developers-club.com/posts/229343/ 

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