Recently, Cisco dropped some “unofficial” hints on new CCIE Security v4 track in a Cisco Small Business post. Probably, the official annoucement will be made soon so, if you are planning to sit CCIE Security Lab, it’s time to get ready. Some tidbits from the relevant posts here : The Real Life of an Expert: [...]

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Generally, there are two forms of approaches that are used widely in networks today for User Credentials management i.e.  Username & Password based authentication and/or Certificate based authentication.First approach is easier to manage but if you choose easy passwords or your passwords are stolen, your identity can get compromised. 2nd approach requires little bit of [...]

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In this blog post, i would cover steps you need to setup an Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA) & in subsequent posts, i would demonstrate how to install an Enterprise CA issued Identity Certificate on Cisco Secure ACS 5.X Server . I would also walk-through a scenario with Extensible Authentication Protocol – Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) [...]

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If you are studying for CCIE Security or any Cisco Related Certification, you need to work on IPS. In this detailed tutorial, i will show you how you can emulate Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) 6 using Qemu & GNS3. I will be emulating IPS 4235 v 6.0.6(E3) in this tutorial. You can run upto [...]

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This write-up will explain Qemu Image use in GNS3 . Qemu Host image can be either CLI ( Microcore ) or GUI (Tinycore).Its basically a small linux image which can be used for performing some basic connectivity tasks e.g telnet, ssh, iptables, route, tcpdump and IPv6 support. This tutorial will walk you through step by [...]

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