Cisco announces new version of CCIE SP Written and Lab Contents with version 4.1
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Recently Cisco updated the blueprint for the Cisco CCIE Service Provider Written & Lab exams, the new CCIE SP version 4.1 is only about 10% different than its preceding version 4.0. The exam format still remains the same, the CCIE SP written exam number also remains the same (400-201) and the...
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Time to welcome CCIE Security Version 5 Written and Lab exam
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Starting today i.e. 31st Jan 2017 , CCCIE Security Version 5 exams both lab and written are available for all CCIE aspirers all over the globe in authorised centres. The written exam known as CCIE Security Written Exam (400-251) version 5.0 is a two-hour test with 90-110 questions. However the...
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Blue Coat Proxy SG Deployment methods – Virtually Inline Mode
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In Virtually Inline deployment mode, the Proxy SG can be deployed in any network location, it relies on traffic redirection mechanisms like Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) or Policy Based Routing (PBR) to redirect the interesting traffic, such as HTTP /HTTPS to the Proxy SG. WCCP is a Cisco...
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Cisco ASA FirePOWER Services and High Availability – Series 3
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The Cisco ASA Firewall with FirePOWER services can be deployed in Active/ Active failover, in this mode the ASAs must operate in multiple context mode. Cisco is relying on failover groups for active Active/Active failover mode. A failover group comprises of logical groups, of one or more security...
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Cisco ASA FirePOWER Services and High Availability – Series 2
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The Cisco ASA Appliances offers failover in following states
- Stateless failover
- Stateful failover.
- Synchronizes its...
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Cisco ASA FirePOWER Services and High Availability – Series 1
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The Cisco ASA Appliance with FirePOWER Services is capable of offering high availability using failover and clustering. When it comes to failover , the Cisco ASA supports following types
- Active/Standby
- Active/ Active
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What is Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)?
Profile: Yasir Irfan
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) is a unified software image, which includes the Cisco ASA features and FirePOWER Services. This unified software is capable of offering the function of ASA and FirePOWER in one platform, both in terms of hardware and software features. This seems to be a good...
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Things to consider before introducing Palo Alto Firewall into routing domain- Series 2
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In my previous post , I did mentioned Palo Alto Networks Firewall having issues in...
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How does Palo Alto Firewall identify an App?
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When it comes to identifying an application Palo Alto Firewall is quite accurate and yield great results in either allowing or dropping the traffic based on security policy applied. I believe App-ID is the strongest point of Palo Alto Firewalls and it makes them leaders in the Next Generation...
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Things to consider before introducing Palo Alto Firewall into routing domain- Series 1
Profile: Yasir Irfan
When it comes to routing, most of us are quite comfortable in using dedicated routers in Enterprise networks. Some time the Business need or the existing network design forces an Organisation to use a traditional firewall not only as a firewall but also as a router. Well this works well, if some...
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