Installing a free Certificate 🔖 on a Cisco ASA Firewall for AnyConnect

Installing a free Certificate 🔖 on a Cisco ASA Firewall for AnyConnect

These days all the devices have Trust Issues! In order to get rid of the warning every time you connect to the VPN using Cisco AnyConnect using the default self-signed certificate installed in the Cisco ASA Firewall, you can install a free certificate from Let's Encrypt. They only issue 90 day certs, but free to renew for a lifetime. On linux, the process of renewal can easily be automated, but not on a Cisco device. Eventhough Cisco is mentioned as a sponsor on Let's Encrypt's website, as of this writing, this is a manual certificate renewal process, until Cisco devices natively implement the ACME protocol. That being said, here's the quick and dirty way using free online tools to make the process easy: Step 1: Go to ZeroSSL.com That's just the web based version of Let's Encrypt, since Let's Encrypt only get's certificates using its ACME protocol that the linux app Certbot uses on an Apache server, .... well that's the most common use case. Input all the...
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