Cisco Firepower Threat Defense(FTD) NGFW: An Administrator's Handbook : A 100% practical guide on configuring and managing CiscoFTD using Cisco FMC and FDM.
This book is written like a learning course, explained in detail with a lab topology using FTDv and FMCv. Hence this is a 100% practical guide on configuring and managing Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Next Generation Firewall using Cisco Firepower Management Center. I have also covered the standalone firewall introduction and how to use Firepower Device Manager to manage your FTD firewall locally without using FMC.

Covers,
• How to upgrade ASA firewall to Cisco FTD (Migration and Upgrade)
• Configure Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Next Generation firewall
• Configure Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC)
• Manage and administer the FTD devices using FMC ( Configure interfaces, zones, routing, ACLs, Prefilter policies, NAT, High Availability etc)
• FTD local management using Firepower Device Manager (FDM)
• Introduction to the FTD Migration tool

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• How to use this book?
• What is Cisco FTD?
• Lab Topology
• Setting up Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Firewall
• Changing Management IP
• Configure Manager in Cisco FTD
• Setting up Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC)
• License Activation
• Explore the Cisco FMC options
• Register Cisco FTD with Cisco FMC
• Configure the Firewall Zone and Interface
• Additional Notes on Sub-Interface and Redundant Interfaces
• Create a Platform Policy
• Configure Routing on Cisco FTD
• Configuring FTD as a DHCP server
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Create an Access Control Policy
• Pre-Filter Policy
• Configuring High Availability on Cisco FTD
• Upgrading Cisco ASA firewall to FTD
• Installing Cisco FTD image on an existing ASA Firewall
• Install Firepower Threat Defense System Software
• Manage Cisco FTD firewall using Firepower Device Manager (FDM)
• Bonus: Introduction to Cisco FTD migration tool

Note: This book doesn’t cover the topics on VPN, SGT, and Cisco ISE integration.