Cisco ASA FirePOWER deployment options – Series 2

Cisco ASA FirePOWER module can be configured in promiscuous monitor-only mode also known as passive mode. As the name suggests, in passive mode the Cisco ASA FirePOWER module does nothing to the traffic passes through it. Rather the ASA just forwards a copy of the packet to Cisco ASA FirePOWER...
Cisco ASA Firewalls can be exploited by sending crafted UDP packets

Yesterday I received an email from Cisco Security Advisories about the critical vulnerability related IKE version 1 and IKE version 2 code of ASA Software...
How to configure Site-to-Site IPSec VPN on Cisco Routers? – Series 2

In my previous post we talked briefly about IPSec. We will be using the below topology for our set up.
How to configure Site-to-Site IPSec VPN on Cisco Routers? – Series 1

IPSec is the protocol one can use to establish a Site-to-Site VPN , as it is widely used because its an open standard protocol which offers secure and encrypted communication over the public internet domain. IPSec works at Network later and only pass unicast traffic. I will brief you all about how...
Palo Alto Network Firewall Architecture – Know how

Palo Alto takes a good approach in designing the architecture for their next generation firewalls. Palo Alto offers processors dedicated to security function that work in parallel. Palo Alto firewall contains separate Control Plane and Data Plane. By separating them Palo Alto is ensuring that...