Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) is an latest firewall integrative software that has been launched by cisco. This software combining CISCO ASA and FirePOWER feature into one hardware and software inclusive system. Cisco is a pioneer in the Next Generation Firewall Vendors, where competitors are limited to single platforms.
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) unified image software is available in stable release or beta. So basically ASA with FTD image is not an ASA with FirePOWER. When the FTD image is used there is a single compiled image and not the separate ASA software with FirePOWER software running in a module. there is only FTD software.wich can be managed through Cisco FMC a single management console to manage an entire platform.
Which would provide the firewall capability as well as IPS/IDS which would provide you the details of about the incoming traffic to your network and block the malicious traffic based upon the IPS signatures, SHA value, globally recognized malicious IP and domains.
