Messengers restriction by ISA………………..
Hi, Here is my configuration: In Router I set denny any to any by UDP, The Default GateWay is Router for every body, In IE I set the address of ISA with port 8080 as proxy for all users, I don’t have any rules for messengers, A.Now when I set in yahoo messenger NO Proxy [...]

Answer Question   |  December 27, 2006  1:15 AM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, VPN, Wireless

Isa Server message….
Hi, I restrict a group of user for accessing to internet,when user try to connect to internet a page message appear for him or her that can’t access to internet. I want to change or edit the text of this message page!!! Could you please help me? Thank you. —- Regards Mahnaz

Answer Question   |  December 26, 2006  7:41 AM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking, Tech support, VPN, Wireless

mmc error in isa server……….
Hi, When I want to edit an Access rule and clicking the Protocol Tab it get an error: MMC has detected an error in snap-in.It is recommended that you shut down and restart MMC” But I should restart the computer!!!!! My OS is Win 2003 Server Enterprise R2 and IsaServer 2004 Enterprise. Could you please [...]

Answer Question   |  January 1, 2007  4:06 AM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Microsoft Windows, Network security, VPN, Wireless

Hardware firewall solutions
Hi all – I need to find a replacement for our current hardware firewall (Checkpoint 100 user). We are downsizing the office it’s in and the current mainenance of $1500/year is rather high. So I’m looking for other solutions, the new office is going to have only 5 people in it, we need to be [...]

Answer Question   |  December 21, 2006  6:44 PM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, VPN, Wireless

Firewall
I?m looking for firewall solution for my network. Right now we have a router that was provided by IPS then a firewall (3com office connect) after firewall is the main router (cisco 2600) that is our gateway and DHCP. Our network is made of several subnet. All (about 90) workstations are XP Pro, with windows [...]

Answer Question   |  December 14, 2006  5:22 PM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking, Security, VPN, Wireless

Moving into the InfoSec role
I work at a company that currently does not have a position dedicated to information security. I come from a background in networking with a good portion of my focus on firewalls and other security related technologies. I am interested in positioning myself into the role of InfoSec Admin at my compnay and was hoping [...]

Answer Question   |  December 22, 2006  1:36 PM
Access control, Application security, backdoors, Biometrics, Browsers, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, Spyware, SSL/TLS, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, Wireless, worms

Nortel Contivity VPN CLient
I have an issue with a user of the above. V4.01. From home his VPN to a remote site in France is OK speed wise, even though his Broad band is only 500K up and 128K down. He can work all day with no speed degradation. From his office, BB is 3mb down and 400K [...]

Answer Question   |  December 11, 2006  2:24 PM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, VPN, Wireless

Checkpoint firewall and Cisco VPN
Hi all – I have this problem now for 2 separate people and am a little perplexed. Here’s what’s happening: We have a Checkpoint firewall (Nokia), very restricted access. We have consultants or auditors that come in and need to access their Cisco VPN from inside our firewall and it always fails. I added them [...]

Answer Question   |  November 28, 2007  12:07 PM
Cisco, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, VPN, Wireless

Networking DHCP growth
Okay, probably a simple question for a lot, but my experience has been more along the lines of many offices, with a typical setup of a border router (cisco, firewall (watchguard, new cisco ASA’s, Windows 2003 server DC, exchange server, etc….) I have been doing this a while now and have been working with everything, [...]

Answer Question   |  November 22, 2006  7:39 PM
Active Directory, Availability, Cabling, Career development, Cisco, DataCenter, DHCP, DNS, Firewalls, Forensics, Hardware, Hubs, Incident response, Intrusion management, Microsoft Windows, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Networking services, Routers, Security, Switches, Tech support, Training, VPN, Wireless

Create Domain and new exchange server
Pardon my ignorance, but I’ve looked everywhere for Exchange ’101′. Everywhere I look starts off with upgrading and existing situations… I have a small office (10 ppl) that currently just has an application server. I would like to implement a domain controller and also have exchange server setup. Do I need both a front-end (in [...]

Answer Question   |  November 28, 2006  5:58 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Exchange, Exchange security, Firewalls, Forensics, Hardware, Incident response, Intrusion management, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network security, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server, VPN, Wireless

Restrict traffic for Cisco VPN clients
Hi all, First some background for my question: I have recently set up a VPN tunnel between a Cisco PIX 506E (VPN server) and remote clients. The remote clients use Cisco VPN Client software version 4.8. Everything seems to work fine. But as it is configured right now the remote clients have full access to [...]

Answer Question   |  May 17, 2011  5:28 AM
Cisco, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking, TCP, VPN, Wireless

Blue Socket Gateway and Certificates
We are currently attempting to implement a Blue Socket Gateway in order to authenticate our wireless clients. I have been instructed by Blue Socket that the certificate used by them will not work through a NAT translation and that I should put this device on the outside of my ASA firewall. Apparently, when the Blue [...]

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2006  5:05 PM
Access control, Active Directory, Application security, Browsers, Compliance, CRM, Database, Desktops, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network security, Networking, OS, Policies, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Servers, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, VPN, Web security, Wireless

same user login to vpn twice
Hi Very simple question, can anyone think of a valid reason why a user can not vpn in from two differnet machines at the same time using the same username and password. So a user is at home and has a laptop and a desktop and wants to VPN into the office using his same [...]

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2006  6:57 AM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking, VPN, Wireless

security problem
Hello, I have small workgroup having 10 computers in my office. I do some personal work in office like using yahoo messenger, checking personal e-mails and some online banking site. But how does one of my senior knows it? I do everything lonely and securely so that nobody in the office knows it. But he [...]

Answer Question   |  February 19, 2008  3:44 AM
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Dos attack
I have been receiving security alert messages from our firewall nearly everyday. e.g TCP Packet – Source:144.120.8.89,39341 Destination:192.168.1.1,25 – [DOS] TCP Packet – Source:210.7.0.36,3473 Destination:210.7.12.23,135 – [DOS] Thu, 2006-10-19 16:30:03 – UDP Packet – Source:192.168.1.111,1443 Destination:202.62.124.238,53 – [Any(ALL) match] can someone help me… Thanks in advance Wanz.

Answer Question   |  July 8, 2009  4:36 PM
Access control, Application security, backdoors, Biometrics, Browsers, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, Spyware, SSL/TLS, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, Wireless, worms

telnet, ssh, and vpn fail on completely open pix
We are setting up a pix internally in our net. The network behind it is a private range but we aren’t doing NAT. The outside address is public and we want external users to VPN to it to reach the private net. My management station is outside of the firewall and I can manage the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 9, 2006  6:09 PM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, VPN, Wireless

Best practices involving admin rights for user on user system
We are currently in the middle of figuring out the approach we are going to take in regard to a user having admin rights on their system. Typcially we set up a new user as an administrator on their system when they are logged into the domain. They don’t have a local admin account on [...]

Answer Question   |  August 18, 2010  4:23 PM
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Sub-lease to include non-Domain members
The CEO of my company has asked me to look into some options for accomodating a request by a Non-profit to rent some of our unused office space. For the sake of this question, we have a single floor office and all cubes and offices are wired for voice and data and punched down in [...]

Answer Question   |  September 18, 2006  4:07 PM
Bandwidth, DataCenter, Firewalls, Forensics, Hardware, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Project management, Routers, Security, VPN, Wireless

Monitoring the Network
Hi, I have multiple remote sites. I would like to monitor the network and analyze the traffic and its performance in general. For example, how the bandwidth is consumed, if certain activities are unnecessary and how to improve the networks performance by blocking through the firewall like peer-to-peer applications, etc. I am using check point [...]

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2008  12:51 AM
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VPN & CISCO 2610 setup
Hello Sir/Madam, I cannot access our VPN from the internet outside our organization. I am using Cisco 2610 Router with IOS v12.3. And i created the access-list for the inbound and outbound connections. I have mentioned the access-list below and also i mapped a static IP address with the VPN server’s IP so it can [...]

Answer Question   |  November 28, 2007  1:25 AM
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