How do I configure URL filtering on firepower devices?

How do I configure URL filtering on firepower devices?

There are three steps you should follow for the configuration of URL filtering:

1. Configure URL objects/group under Object management.
2. Create rule under Access control policy calling the URL object created.
3. Deploy the policy to the target device.

How do I enable URL filters?

Click Security Settings / Devices. Select a group, then click Configure Settings. Click URL Filtering. Tick Enable URL Filtering check box.

What does URL filtering do?

URL filtering limits access by comparing web traffic against a database to prevent employees from accessing harmful sites such as phishing pages. Traditionally, companies have used URL filtering as a tool to prevent employees from accessing unproductive sites.

How do I block a website on a Cisco ASA?

Block URLs using FQDN objects The Cisco ASA firewall 8.4. 2 introduced something called Identity Firewall. The IDFW gives a new level of control to ACLs. You can now configured ACLs to block domain names.

What is the inspection order for URL filtering?

URL filtering can only be done for unencrypted HTTP traffic. If you want to filter HTTPS traffic, you must first use TLS Inspection to decrypt the HTTPS traffic. TLS Inspection is a separately licensed feature. URL filtering and CIS redirection cannot be done for the same traffic.

How do I block a URL?

Here’s how.

1. Open the browser and go to Tools (alt+x) > Internet Options. Now click the security tab and then click the red Restricted sites icon. Click the Sites button below the icon.
2. Now in the pop-up, manually type the websites you want to block one-by-one. Click Add after typing the name of each site.

What are the three key features of URL filtering?

URL filtering helps you control the network behaviors in the following aspects:

• Access control to certain category of websites, such as gambling and pornographic websites.
• Access control to certain category of websites during the specified period.
• Access control to the website whose URL contains the specified keywords.

How do I whitelist in firepower?

In order to Configure Security Intelligence, navigate to Configuration > ASA Firepower Configuration > Policies > Access Control Policy, select Security Intelligence tab. Choose the feed from the Network Available Object, move to Whitelist/ Blacklist column to allow/block the connection to the malicious IP address.

How do I test a URL filter?

To test the URL Filter module:

1. Click HTTP > URL Filtering > Settings from the main menu.
2. Click HTTP > URL Filtering > Policies from the Main menu.
3. Select Enable URL filtering and then click Save.

When to use the ASA URL filtering tool?

URL filtering directly on the ASA using regex, should be used only sparsely when broad classifications can be applied, with limited regex patterns. The ASA will not scale being used in an enterprise with large regex matches and large volumes of HTTP traffic.

Can you apply access control on the ASA FirePower module?

You cannot apply the access control policy until you first add a URL Filtering license to the ASA FirePOWER module. You may lose access to URL filtering if you delete the license from the ASA FirePOWER module. Also, URL Filtering licenses may expire.

Can a Cisco domain be blocked by Asa?

This page supplements the ASA URL Filtering (via CLI) at the link below: In this article we will either block or allow domains in URLs and words in the URI. Of course the ASA can match on other things, too. They can be found in the ASA configuration guides. From now and onwards we will allow or block the cisco.com domain.

What’s the latest version of Cisco ASA 5506?

For the SMB/SOHO market, Cisco’s initial offering was the PIX 501, followed by the successful Cisco ASA 5505. The latter came to an End-of-Sale in 2014 and now the replacement low-end model is the new Cisco ASA 5506-X.