Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000 Release Notes
Version 5.2.0.6
Sourcefire 3D System Release Notes
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Features Introduced in Previous Versions
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In an access control policy, the system processes certain Trust rules before
the policy’s Security Intelligence blacklist. Trust rules placed before either
the first Monitor rule or before a rule with an application, URL, user, or
geolocation-based network condition are processed before the blacklist.
That is, Trust rules that are near the top of an access control policy (rules
with a low number) or that are used in a simple policy allow traffic that
should have been blacklisted to pass uninspected instead. (138743, 139017)
Features Introduced in Previous Versions
Functionality described in previous versions may be superseded by other new
functionality or updated through resolved issues.
5.2.x.x
No new features were introduced in Versions 5.2.0.1, 5.2.0.2, 5.2.0.3, 5.2.0.4, or
5.2.0.5.
5.2
The following new features and functionality were introduced in Version 5.2:
Advanced Malware Protection
Version 5.2 adds two new features to enhance the malware protection
capabilities of the Sourcefire 3D System: malware blocking and network file
trajectory.
Malware Blocking
The Sourcefire 3D System network-based advanced malware detection
capabilities added in Version 5.1.1 identifies individual files as they enter your
network, creates a fingerprint of each file, checks the fingerprint against the
Sourcefire cloud to determine the disposition of the file, and alerts you to files
identified as malware.
With the addition of malware blocking in Version 5.2, the Sourcefire 3D System
With the addition of malware blocking in Version 5.2, the Sourcefire 3D System
now provides advanced malware protection (AMP). You can now configure file
policies to block transfer of known malware files.
Based on the disposition of each detected file and the rules you set in your file
Based on the disposition of each detected file and the rules you set in your file
policies, the Defense Center instructs a managed device either to block the file or
to allow its upload or download. To improve performance, if the system already