FTDv

The Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (threat defense virtual) brings Cisco's Next Generation Firewall functionality to virtualized environments, enabling consistent security policies to follow workloads across your physical, virtual, and cloud environments and between clouds.

The Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual combines Cisco’s proven network firewall with Snort IPS, URL filtering, and malware defense. It simplifies threat protection with consistent security policies across physical, private, and public cloud environments. Get deep visibility into your network and quickly detect threat origin and activity. Then, stop attacks before they impact your operations.

Limitations

• Achieved throughput with Access Control Policy set to trust all traffic was ~433 Mbits/sec
• Achieved throughput with deep packet inspection to filter out specific protocols was 408 Mbits/sec
• Baseline throughput was 609 Mbits/sec

Tested Features

• Basic connectivity
• Adding FTD to FMC
• Routing
• PAT
• Deep packet inspection - detecting protocol
• Deep packet inspection - detecting file types