Virtual Private Network Features

This chapter provides high-level information to configure the ASA Virtual Private Network features in Secure Firewall Threat Defense using Secure Firewall Management Center.

Site-to-Site VPN

Table 1. Site-to-Site VPN

ASA Feature

Threat Defense Feature in Secure Firewall Management Center

Notes

LAN-to-LAN IPsec

Policy-based VPN

UI path: Devices > Site To Site > Policy Based (Crypto Map).

See: Configure a Policy-based Site-to-Site VPN.

How-To: Configure a Policy-based Site-to-Site VPN, Customize IKE Options for an Existing Site-to-Site VPN Deployment, Customize IPsec Options for an Existing Site-to-Site VPN Deployment, Customize Advanced Settings for an Existing Site-to-Site VPN Deployment

The management centerprovides a single wizard to configure VPN on the peers.

Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI)

Route-based VPN

UI path: Devices > Site To Site > Route Based (VTI).

See: Create a Route-based Site-to-Site VPN.

How-To: Create a route-based VPN (VTI), Configure a Static Route for VTI, Configure BGP routing for VTI, Configure an access control rule to allow encrypted traffic over VTI

Creating a VPN between a hub with a dynamic VTI and spokes with static VTIs is much easier in management center using the wizard.

There is no wizard in ASDM.

Umbrella SASE

Deploy a SASE Tunnel on Umbrella

UI path: Devices > VPN > Site To Site > +SASE Topology.

See: Deploy a SASE Tunnel on Umbrella.

Monitor Site-to-Site VPN

Monitor the Site-to-Site VPN

UI path: Overview > Dashboards > Site to Site VPN.

See: Monitor the Site-to-Site VPN.

Remote Access VPN

Table 2. Remote Access VPN

ASA Feature

Threat Defense Feature in Secure Firewall Management Center

Notes

Remote Access IPsec (IKE v2) VPN

Remote Access VPN Policy

UI path: Devices > VPN > Remote Access > Policy Assignment > VPN Protocols > IPsec-IKEv2.

See: Configuring a Remote Access VPN Connection.

How-To:

  • Configuring Traffic Filtering for Remote Access (RA) VPN Connections—Creating an Extended Access List for Filtering Traffic on an RA VPN Connection, Adding an Extended Access List to a Group Policy for Filtering Traffic on an RA VPN Connection

  • Certificate Authentication for Remote Access (RA) VPN—Creating a Certificate Map for Certificate Authentication in RA VPN, Associating a Certificate Map to a Connection Profile

  • Create and Install an Identity Certificate on Device for Remote Access VPN Configuration—PKCS12 Cert Enrollment Object, Manual Cert Enrollment Object, Self-signed Cert Enrollment Object, SCEP Cert Enrollment Object, Install Manual Certificate, Install PKCS12, SCEP, or Self-Signed Certificate, Configure Remote Access VPN

  • Configuring VPN—Renew a certificate using manual re-enrollment, Renew a certificate using Self-signed, SCEP, or EST enrollment, Configure LDAP attribute map for remote access VPN, Add SAML Single Sign-On server object, Configure Dynamic Access Policy for Remote Access VPN

Configuring a connection profile and a group policy object remains the same in the management center as in the ASA.

You must create a realm object for creating local users and Active Directory/LDAP. Realms are connections between the management center and the user accounts on the servers.

Remote Access SSL VPN

Remote Access VPN Policy

UI path: Devices > VPN > Remote Access > Policy Assignment > VPN Protocols > SSL.

See: Configuring a Remote Access VPN Connection.

How-To: Configure Remote Access VPN.

VPN Load Balancing

VPN Load Balancing

UI path: Edit the remote access VPN policy.

Advanced > Load Balancing.

See: Configuring VPN Load Balancing.

VPN load balancing is a mechanism for equitably distributing remote-access VPN traffic among the devices in a VPN load-balancing group.

Dynamic Access Policies

Dynamic Access Policies

UI path: Devices > Dynamic Access Policy.

See: Dynamic Access Policies.

How-To: Configure Dynamic Access Policy for Remote Access VPN.

Enables you to configure authorization that addresses the dynamics of VPN environments.

Monitor VPN

Remote Access VPN Dashboard

UI path: Overview > Dashboards > Remote Access VPN

See: Remote Access VPN Monitoring.

Secure Client Hostscan

VPN File Objects

UI path: Objects > Object Management > VPN > Secure Client File.

See: File Objects.

Secure Client Custom Attributes

Secure Client Custom Attributes Objects

UI path: Objects > Object Management > VPN > Custom Attribute.

Secure Client Custom Attributes Objects.