The Cisco FirePOWER Management Center is the administrative nerve center for select Cisco security products, running on a number of different platforms. It provides complete and unified management of firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection. The Cisco FirePOWER Management Center provides extensive intelligence about the users, applications, devices, threats, and vulnerabilities, that exist in your network. It also uses this information to analyze your network's vulnerabilities. It then provides tailored recommendations on what security policies to put in place and what security events you should investigate.

The Management Center provides easy-to-use policy screens to control access and guard against known attacks. It integrates with advanced malware protection and sandboxing technology, and it provides tools to track malware infections throughout your network. It unifies all these capabilities in a single management interface. You can go from managing a firewall to controlling applications to investigating and remediating malware outbreaks with ease.