17th May 2012

Cisco SecureX – Nothing but Empty Words ?

Apparently SecureX is “Context Aware Enforcement”. It’s also Cisco’s current security strategy ( is that three or four in the last three years ? ). So it’s something we should probably be aware of. Right ?

I’m coming up with nothing.

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Citrix Branch Repeater Authentication With Cisco TACACS+

I have been looking about for documentation on how to configure TACACS authentication with a Citrix Branch Repeater, however so far I have only been able to find documentation for NetScaler. So I have setup a LAB and decided to write the documentation myself. For those who cannot be bothered to read this post there [...]

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Verifiying IPsec and SSL Performance of ASA Firewall

It’s difficult to a get any documentation from Cisco that confirms the forwarding performance of the ASA firewall. However, once you have got a unit, the “show crypto acclerator statistics” is a handy way to verify and check the hardware performance of your ASA. I think that most of this output is self-explanatory so I’m [...]

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End of Life Notice for Cisco CS-MARS Questions CiscoíS Commitment to Security.

Cisco announces End Of Life for CS-MARS. Whither goes Cisco’s commitment to Security ?

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Internets of Interest:2 Sep 10

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 2 Sep 10:

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Show 15 ñ Saving the Web With Dinky Putt Putt Firewalls

Web Application Firewalls, Talking Puppets, ATM to IP migration and Dinky Putt Putt Firewalls.

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Internets of Interest:30 Jul 10

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 30 Jul 10:

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Packet Pushers Podcast – Show 12 – Get on the Ring!

Short, sharp and awesome. And covering more about FibreChannel over Token Ring.

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Cisco and Their Security Strategy

Recently, the Security Strategy from Cisco has become vague and ill defined.

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Packet Pushers Show 6 – Chewing on DDOS

We had planned a number of topics this week. Once we started on DDOS we didn’t stop before the time was up.

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