Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000 Release Notes

Version 5.3.0.2

Sourcefire 3D System Release Notes

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Features Introduced in Previous Versions

Simplified Intrusion Policy Variable Management

: Protection

: Any

: Any

The addition of variable sets streamlines and centralizes variable management in 

the object manager. You create custom variable sets and customize the default 

variable set to suit your network environment. The default variable set functions 

as a master key, containing both Sourcefire-provided default variables and 

user-created custom variables, and can be used to populate custom variable sets. 

Customizing a variable in this set propagates the change to all other variable sets 

containing that variable.
The update from Version 5.2 to Version 5.3 automatically transitions existing 

variables into variable sets. Existing system level variables become custom 

variables within the default variable set. Custom variables configured at the 

intrusion policy level are grouped by intrusion policy into new custom variable 

sets.

Geolocation and Access Control

: FireSIGHT

: Series 3, Virtual

: Any except DC500

Version 5.3 introduced the ability to filter traffic by source or destination countries 

from within your access control policy. To take advantage of geolocation filtering, 

specify the individual countries or reference a geolocation object in an access 

control policy rule.
Geolocation objects are configured in the object manager and represent one or 

more countries that your system has identified in traffic on your monitored 

network. Create geolocation objects to save and organize custom groupings of 
countries.

URL Filtering License Change

: Protection + URL Filtering

: Series 3, Virtual, X-Series

: Any except DC500

Sourcefire no longer requires a Control license to enable URL filtering. Only a 

Protection license is required. After you add a URL Filtering license for the first 

time, the Defense Center automatically enables URL filtering and automatic 

updates.

8300 Family of Series 3 FirePOWER Appliances

: 3D8350, 3D8360, 3D8370, 3D8390

Version 5.3 introduced the high-powered 8300 Family of Series 3 FirePOWER 

managed devices. The 8300 Family supports stacking, clustering, all existing 

NetMods, and all other features of the existing Series 3 8000 Series managed