Hybrid work is the new normal, to complement our best-in-class Remote Access VPN Capabilities inside Cisco Secure Firewall, release 7.3 delivers a consolidated dashboard for monitoring the Remote Access infrastructure. Additionally, the reporting and eventing capabilities have been enhanced to show any events that map to specific tactics as described by MITRE. The Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in Secure Firewall 7.3 now includes groups of rules mapped to the MITRE framework so that customers can both deploy explicit protections and see events mapped to those known attackers’ tactics and techniques. This allows for enhanced visibility of this traffic for use in policy decisions to help determine the nature of the traffic and identify potential malicious traffic hiding in the QUIC Protocol. Further enhancements to Cisco’s Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE), first launched a year ago in 7.1, allows for the fingerprinting of traffic that is using the QUIC Protocol in Secure Firewall 7.3. It is the default protocol for popular sites such as Google and Facebook, almost 10% of sites today now support transport over the QUIC protocol.

The QUIC protocol is seeing significant adoption but seeing within QUIC is highly challenging. The 7.3 release delivers more features to the three key outcomes: see and detect more threats faster in an increasingly encrypted environment, simplify operations, and lower the TCO of our security solution. Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall 7.3Ĭisco’s latest release of the Secure Firewall operating system, Secure Firewall Threat Defense Version 7.3, addresses key concerns for today’s firewall customers.

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