19
Oct
Cisco has announced a number of changes to their professional and associate level certifications this morning. Here are the details: Security This morning Cisco announces the newly revised CCNP Security Track (Formerly CCSP). This track includes the following: SECURE IPS v7.0 FIREWALL VPN SECURE covers IOS Security Catalyst Switch Security. IPS v7.0 covers the Cisco [...]
12
Jul
If you have ever worked with the ASA and the Modular Policy Framework you may have seen the “Strict” option for FTP inspection. This option does not allow embeded commands to be sent through a browser. It made me wonder, do people still use a web browser to FTP? Personally I use WSFTP or FireFTP [...]
12
Jul
Here is the down and dirty on how to Mask your Web Servers banner using an ASA in 5 minutes. The idea here is to improve security by making the server appear to be something other than what it really is. Referring to the figure below, here is how it works. The User on the [...]
24
Jun
Are you an organization that is using the Cisco IPsec VPN client with an ASA for VPN termination of end users? If you are, you may want to look into the Essentials license for Anyconnect. Anyconnect is the SSL VPN Client for Cisco ASA’s that allows full tunnel access, just like the IPsec client does. [...]
10
Jun
Static Route Tracking is actually a pretty simple concept. You have two routes, but one is just a backup. If some target that you are pinging fails using the primary static route the secondary route takes over. Lets take a look at the configuration. To begin, here is the simple topology that we’ll work with: