Many companies have a security policy prohibiting the sending out of customer email addresses and social security numbers. It still happens, and it’s hard to stop people from doing it....
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I had an issue with the Cisco Security Management Server identifying users. I had the Realm configured, the user Identity agent installed, and everything appeared to be working. The only…
I came across an issue where the IP phones were not able to keep proper time. After troubleshooting the issue, I found that the DHCP option 42 (NTP server) pointed…
Description: Ever had an ssh session to a Cisco device close as soon as authenticating? This article describes one possible reason for this behavior. No Exec Assuming you have access...
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Description: On January 29th 2017 Cisco announced a critical vulnerability for a wide spectrum of ASA versions. This document describes the details of the vulnerability, how to identify whether you…
I was troubleshooting AAA authentication using RADIUS going to a Windows NPS server. We kept seeing the session authenticate properly but get kicked out just seconds after a successful authentication. …
Cisco is marketing the ISR 4000 series routers as a replacement for the beloved 2900/3900 and 2800/3800 series routers. I wish this was the case; the ISR 4000 series routers…
Description: This document describes the process of creating an IPSEC tunnel between a Ubiquity USG and a Cisco ASA via an on premises Unifi controller. Unifi Configuration: This setup was...
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Cisco has positioned the 5506x to replace their long time small office firewall, the 5505. The issue with the Cisco ASA 5506 is that it has separate ports that cannot…
This document describes our basic standard for syslog configuration on ASA firewalls. Setup NTP: First, let me say you should never trust another device's time. Always use local time stamps...
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