Firepower Management Center Active Directory Authenticated

AD Authenticated Firepower Management Center The goal of this article is to quickly show you  how you can configure your Firepower Management Center (FMC) to authenticate against Active Directory. First login to FMC as a local admin 2. Hover over System, then select Users   3. Select External Authentication 4.  Select Add External Authentication Object …

Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN Failover How-To

Policy based IPSEC tunneling is probably the most widely used technique to get two offices to communicate securely (at least in the SMB Market). Today I’m going to discuss how you can configure two ASA’s to failover to their secondary WAN, and then have their tunnels fail over as well. One should always aim for …

Connect Cisco VIRL to The Internet AND a VMware Virtual Machine

Anyone who talks nerd with me knows I love my subscription to Cisco VIRL. However at some point in your lab you will find that you want a Server 2012/2016 VM, or you just want some dam network connectivity in this lab. Have no fear, flat networks are here. (They always have been). Step 1: …

Cisco ASA VTI (9.7) Route Based VPN with load-balancing and failover – Setup Guide

With code 9.7 released Cisco decided to add two VERY important features. Route based VPN with VTIs, and bridge groups! This article will show a quick configuration of a route based VPN with ASAs! Previously to do something like this you would need to build a GRE tunnel over IPSEC with a second router terminating …

Cisco ASA – AnyConnect VPN with Active Directory Authentication Complete Setup Guide

This article will discuss setting up Cisco Anyconnect with LDAP/Domain Authentication. I will be showing both the ASDM/GUI and CLI commands. I recommend the GUI method once, then use the CLI once you understand it. Replace the following below with your own: “10.0.1.10” with your AD/DNS Server “DC=SDC,DC=LOCAL” with the base DN of your Domain, my …

Cisco ASA to Palo Alto Site to Site IPSEC VPN Failover

  Today I’m going to show you exactly how to configure IPSEC failover between a Cisco ASA and A Palo Alto. Network: 1 ASA, 2 wan circuits 1 Palo, 1 wan circuit     Let’s assume at the ASA side 20.0.3.2 is our primary WAN circuit and 20.0.4.2 is the backup circuit we have just …