Daren Matthews

This is the base setup of a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance:

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Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager provides setup wizards that help you configure and manage Cisco firewall devices, including:

• the Cisco ASA Adaptive Security Appliances,
• Cisco PIX appliances,
• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Firewall Services Modules

All without “cumbersome” command-line scripts

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Here is a basic PIX configuration, which achieves the following:

–  NAT overload from an inside network to an outside network
–  Accept incoming PPTP VPN connections from ouside clients
–  Turns on the web-based GUI on the PIX Read more…

This is a basic configuration to set up SSH on a Cisco router: Read more…

Permanently delete data from your computer with a “Government Wipe” standard of removal.  This is to be recommended, especially is you resell your computer. Read more…

This Cisco IOS “Policy Compiler” can assist people with the configuration of “complex access lists”. I haven’t tried it myself, but here’s what it claims to do: Read more…

Here is an example of how to configure 802.1x on a Cisco 6500-series running CatOS:  (if you wish to configure dot1x on IOS, read this post)

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Cisco NAC (Network Admission Control) enable security policy enforcement on end-devices attaching to the network.  This video produced by net-security.org reveals a critical vulnerability:

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If you want to practice radius configuration, or if you are testing a Cisco RADIUS setup without having access to the production server, here is a nice solution and sample config.

The Cisco configuration is for the IOS.  If you want to know how to configure on CatOS, read this post Read more…