Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (formerly FTDv/NGFWv) Data Sheet

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Today, organizations rely on a mixture of physical and virtual control points to meet their network security needs. They need the flexibility to deploy different physical and virtual firewalls across a wide range of environments while still maintaining consistent policy across branch offices, corporate datacenters, and all points between. From data center consolidation to office relocations, mergers and acquisitions, as well as seasonal peaks in demand on your applications, Cisco’s virtual firewall portfolio helps you simplify security management with the convenience of unified policy and the flexibility to deploy everywhere.

Cisco® Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (formerly FTDv/NGFWv) 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.

Product overview

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual overview

Figure 1.               

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual overview

Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual is the virtualized option of our popular Secure Firewall Threat Defense (formerly FTD) solution. Prioritize threats with automated risk rankings and impact flags to focus your resources on events requiring immediate action. License portability provides flexibility to move from your on-premises private cloud to public cloud while maintaining consistent policy and unified management across all of your appliances. Cisco Smart Software Licensing makes it easy to deploy, manage, and track virtual firewall instances.

Benefits

Automated risk ranking and impact flags

Prioritize threats by gaining comprehensive visibility of your environment. Reduce the noise and volume of events to focus on high-impact alerts requiring immediate action. Set rule recommendations that correlate host profiles with a level of vulnerability to automate impact analysis and contextualize the data, leveraging the best-of-breed Snort 3 IPS.

License portability across clouds

Deploy appliances everywhere, from your data center to your branch office, with the portability of one license to support virtual and physical solutions across public or private clouds (VMware, KVM, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), government clouds) and hyperconverged infrastructure (Cisco HyperFlex, Nutanix AHV). Expand, contract, and relocate workloads over time spanning physical, virtual, and public cloud infrastructures with one license.

Unified management and automated threat correlation

Stop more threats by containing known and unknown malware with our IPS license, Malware Defense license and URL Filtering license. Reduce the complexity of managing multiple security products through a unified management of integrated tools.

Features and specifications

Table 1.           Features and specifications for Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual

Features

Specifications

Cisco Firewall device manager (local management)

ESXi, KVM and Openstack: Version 7.0 and above; Azure: Version 6.5 and above; AWS: 6.6 and above, Cisco Hyperflex: Version 7.0 and above; Nutanix AHV: Version 7.0 and above

Centralized management

Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by the Cisco Firewall Management Center (all platforms including on-premises and in AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI(6.7 and above)) or alternatively in the cloud with Cisco Defense Orchestrator (ESXi and KVM; Azure: Version 6.5 and above, Cisco Hyperflex: Version 7.0 and above; Nutanix AHV: Version 7.0 and above)

Application Visibility and Control (AVC)

Standard, supporting more than 4000 applications, as well as geolocations, users, and websites

AVC: OpenAppID support for custom, open-source, application detectors

Standard

Cisco Security Intelligence

Standard, with IP, URL, and DNS threat intelligence

IPS license for Cisco Secure Firewall

Available; Snort 3 IPS can passively detect endpoints and infrastructure for threat correlation and Indicators of Compromise (IoC)

Malware Defense license for Cisco Secure Firewall

Available; enables detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and containment of targeted and persistent malware, addressing the attack continuum both during and after attacks. Integrated threat correlation with Cisco Secure Endpoint is also optionally available.

Cisco Secure Malware Analytics sandboxing

Available

URL filtering: number of categories

More than 80

URL filtering: number of URLs categorized

More than 280 million

Automated threat feed and IPS signature updates

Yes: Class-leading Collective Security Intelligence (CSI) from the Cisco Talos® group (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/talos.html)

Third-party and open-source ecosystem

Open API for integrations with third-party products; Snort® and OpenAppID community resources for new and specific threats

High availability and clustering

Active/standby (ESXi and KVM only)

Deployment modes

Routed, transparent (inline set — IPS-only), and passive; AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI: routed mode only

Note:       Performance will vary depending on features activated, network traffic protocol mix, and packet size characteristics. Performance is subject to change with new software releases. Consult your Cisco representative for detailed sizing guidance.

Product performance guidelines

Note:       Your performance may vary from the below. These should be considered general guidelines. Your actual performance will depend on your test environment, including CPU type, CPU speed, cache, number of interfaces, etc.

Table 2.           Performance specifications for Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (ESXi/KVM/OpenStack) version 7.0 and later

License Type

FTDv5 (100M)

FTDv10 (1G)

FTDv20 (3G)

FTDv30(5G)

FTDv50(10G)

FTDv100(16G)

Specification

4 vCPU

4 vCPU

4 vCPU

8 vCPU

12 vCPU

16 vCPU

Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

3 Gbps

5.5 Gbps

10 Gbps

15.5 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

3 Gbps

5.5 Gbps

10 Gbps

15.5 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC (450B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

3 Gbps

5 Gbps

7 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (450B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1 Gbps

2 Gbps

3 Gbps

7 Gbps

Maximum concurrent sessions

100,000

100,000

100,000

250,000

500,000

2,000,000

Maximum new connections per second

12,500

20,000

20,000

20,000

40,000

130,000

Maximum VPN peers

250

250

250

250

750

10,000

IPSec VPN throughput(1024B) TCP w/Fastpath)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.1 Gbps

2 Gbps

4 Gbps

6 Gbps

8 Gbps with QAT(ESXi/KVM)

Table 3.           Performance specifications for Threat Defense Virtual 7.0 and later – AWS*

License Type

FTDv5 (100M)

FTDv10 (1G)

FTDv20 (3G)

FTDv30 (5G)

FTDv50 (10G)

FTDv100 (16G)

AWS Instance type

c5.xlarge

c5.xlarge

c5.xlarge

c5.2xlarge

c5.4xlarge

c5.4xlarge

Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

2.2 Gbps

4.3 Gbps

8.6 Gbps

8.6 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

2.2 Gbps

4.3 Gbps

8.4 Gbps

8.4 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC (450B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

830 Mbps

1.4 Gbps

3.8 Gbps

3.8 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (450B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

830 Mbps

1.4 Gbps

3.2 Gbps

3.2 Gbps

Maximum concurrent sessions

100,000

100,000

100,000

200,000

2M

2M

Maximum new connections per second

24,500

24,500

24,500

45,900

82,800

82,800

Maximum VPN peers

250

250

250

250

750

10,000

IPSec VPN throughput(1024B) TCP w/Fastpath)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.4 Gbps

1.4 Gbps

4 Gbps

4 Gbps

* For non-tiered licenses the performance for 4vCPU instances matches FTDv20, performance of 8vCPU matches the FTDv30 and the performance of 16 vCPU instances matches FTDv100.

Table 4.           Performance specifications for Threat Defense Virtual 7.0 and later- Azure*

License type

FTDv5 (100M)

FTDv10 (1G)

FTDv20 (3G)

FTDv30(5G)

FTDv50 (10G)

FTDv100 (16G)

Azure VM type

D3_v2, D3

D3_v2

D3_v2

D4_v2

D5_v2

D5_v2

Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.4 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

5.0 Gbps

5.0 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.4 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

4.5 Gbps

4.5 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC (450B)

100 Mbps

700 Mbps

700 Mbps

940 Mbps

1.0 Gbps

1.0 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (450B)

100 Mbps

700 Mbps

700 Mbps

920 Mbps

1.0 Gbps

1.0 Gbps

Maximum concurrent sessions

100,000

100,000

100,000

250,000

1.5M

1.5M

Maximum new connections per second

11,550

11,550

11,550

12,480

14,540

14,540

Maximum VPN peers

250

250

250

250

750

10,000

IPSec VPN throughput (1024B) TCP w/Fastpath)

100 Mbps

830 Mbps

830 Mbps

1.6 Gbps

4 Gbps

4 Gbps

*Measured on virtual machines with Accelerated Networking (AN) enabled. For non-tiered licenses the performance for 4vCPU virtual machine type matches FTDv20, performance of 8vCPU matches the FTDv30 and the performance of 16 vCPU matches FTDv100.

Table 5.           Performance specifications for Threat Defense Virtual 7.0 and later- GCP*

License type

FTDv5 (100M)

FTDv10 (1G)

FTDv20 (3G)

FTDv30 (5G)

FTDv50 (10G)

FTDv100 (16G)

GCP machine type

c2-standard-4

c2-standard-4

c2-standard-4

c2-standard-8

c2-standard-16

c2-standard-16

Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

5 Gbps

9.9 Gbps

9.9 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.4 Gbps

5 Gbps

9.7 Gbps

9.7 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC (450B)

100 Mbps

450 Mbps

450 Mbps

1.7 Gbps

2.3 Gbps

2.3 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (450B)

100 Mbps

450 Mbps

450Mbps

1.2 Gbps

2 Gbps

2 Gbps

Maximum concurrent sessions

100,000

100,000

100,000

250,000

2M

2M

Maximum new connections per second

12,000

12,000

12,000

45,000

84,000

84,000

Maximum VPN peers

250

250

250

250

750

10,000

IPSec VPN throughput (1024B) TCP w/Fastpath)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

4 Gbps

4 Gbps

*For non-tiered licenses the performance for 4vCPU machine type matches FTDv20, performance of 8vCPU matches the FTDv30 and the performance of 16 vCPU matches FTDv100

Table 6.           Performance specifications for Threat Defense Virtual 7.0 and later- OCI*

License type

FTDv5 (100M)

FTDv10 (1G)

FTDv20 (2G)/ FTDv 30(5G)

FTDv50 (10G)

FTDv100 (16G)

OCI Shape type

VM.Standard2.4

VM.Standard2.4

VM.Standard2.4

VM.Standard2.8

VM.Standard2.8

Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.2 Gbps

2.4 Gbps

2.4 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.2 Gbps

2.4 Gbps

2.4 Gbps

Throughput: FW + AVC (450B)

100 Mbps

410 Mbps

410 Mbps

920 Mbps

920 Mbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (450B)

100 Mbps

390 Mbps

390 Mbps

910 Mbps

910 Mbps

Maximum concurrent sessions

250,000

250,000

250,000

2M

2M

Maximum new connections per second

4900

4900

4900

10,000

10,000

Maximum VPN peers

250

250

250

750

10,000

IPSec VPN throughput (1024B) TCP w/Fastpath)

100 Mbps

1 Gbps

1.2 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

1.5 Gbps

*Measured with paravirtualized interfaces. For non-tiered licenses the performance for 4 OCPU shape types matches FTDv30, performance of 8OCPU shape types matches the FTDv100.

System requirements

Table 7.           System requirements for Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual

Specification

Description

VMware and KVM: Virtual CPUs and memory (6.4 and above)

  4 vCPU/8GB
  8 vCPU/16GB
  12 vCPU/24GB
  16vCPU/32GB (Threat Defense Virtual Version 7.0 and above)

VMware and KVM: Virtual CPUs and memory (6.3 and earlier)

4 vCPU/8GB

VMware and KVM: Intel QuickAssist Technology(QAT) support(7.0 and above)

Intel QAT 8970 PCI adapter certified on UCS M5 servers. Supported for FTDv100 only.

Storage

50GB for all FTDv configurations

Hypervisor support

ESXi 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, 7.0; KVM, Openstack, Nutanix AHV: AOS version 5.20, AHV Version 20201105.2030. Cisco Hyperflex: Data Platform version 4.5.1a-39020

AWS Support

  Instances: c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge
  Instances: c5.xlarge, c5.2xlarge, & c5.4xlarge (6.6 and above)
  Gov Marketplace
  China Marketplace
  Auto-Scale
  Enhanced Networking

Azure Support

  Instances: D3, D3_v2,
  Instances: D4_v2 and D5_v2 (6.5 and above)
  Gov Marketplace
  China Marketplace
  Auto-Scale
  Accelerated Networking

GCP Support (6.7 and above)

  Instances: c2-standard-4, c2-standard-8, c2-standard-16, n1-standard-4, n1-standard-8, n1-standard-16, n2-standard-4, n2-standard-8, n2-standard-16, n1-highcpu-8, n2-highcpu-8, n1-highcpu-16, n2-highmem-4, n2-highmem-8, n2-highmem-16, n2-highcpu-16

OCI Support (6.7 and above)

  Instances: VM.Standard2.4, VM.Standard2.8

Ordering information

Table 8.           Ordering information for Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual version 7.0 (Tiered licenses)

Part number

Description

FTDV-SEC-SUB

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Subscription

Once the above PID is selected, you can choose from the following Tiered Base and Tiered Threat, Malware and URL Filtering Subscriptions

FTD-V-(X)S-BSE-K9*

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Base License

FTD-V-(X)S-T*

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat Protection

FTD-V-(X)S-TM*

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat and Malware Protection

FTD-V-(X)S-TC*

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat Protection and URL

FTD-V-(X)S-TMC*

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat, Malware, and URL Filtering

FTD-V-(X)S-AMP*

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Malware Protection

FTD-V-(X)S-URL*

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual URL Filtering

*’X’ denotes the specific tier model number 5,10,20,30,50 and 100

Table 9.           Ordering information for non-Tiered Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual licenses

Part number

Description

FPRTD-V-K9

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (TD) Virtual Appliance

L-FPRTD-V-T

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat Protection

L-FPRTD-V-TM

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat and Malware Protection

L-FPRTD-V-TC

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat Protection and URL

L-FPRTD-V-TMC

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Threat, Malware, and URL Filtering

L-FPRTD-V-AMP

Cisco Firepower TD Virtual Malware Protect

L-FPRTD-V-URL

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Virtual URL Filtering

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