Figure 11-4 Firepower Components
Firepower Management Center provides complete and
unified management of firewalls, application control,
intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced
malware protection. It can help administrators smoothly
go from managing firewalls to controlling applications to
investigating and remediating malware attacks.
Firepower Management Center APIs
DevNet has a dedicated developer center for Firepower
at https://developer.cisco.com/firepower/. This site
provides links to various Firepower technologies as well
as the DevNet sandboxes.
The Firepower Management Center REST APIs enable
you to program Firepower devices in order to
automatically provision devices, discover hosts, perform
vulnerability analysis, automate and script firewall
configurations, deploy policies and controls, and monitor
device health. Figure 11-5 provides an overview of how
Firepower Management Center connects to various
Firepower devices as well as how you can build your own
applications by using REST APIs.