Network Security

anyone try to test the AIP-SSM in a lab environment sending Denial of Service, worm virus and see how the IPS respond the attacks?any sample config pls?

do cisco PIXes spport UPNP? this is for MSN video problem behin a firewall (NAT). i read in many places i must use upnp framrwork to bring this to work.

I'm just getting started with my IDS/IPS SSM-20 module. I'm looking for some reporting and querying capabilities for it. Is there a function or ability within the IDM 5.1 application or even if I upgrade. Is possible to look for all alerts for a part...

I have a client emailed me today that someone did a script injection attack on one of their web servers. It ran a backdoor Trojan virus on their web server. I know the AIP-SSM will stop the Trojan, but will it stop someone from doing the script inj...

I have a recently configured an ASA 5510 as a replacement for an end of life Pix 520 Firewall. I am having some problems with outlook web access (OWA). IIS http-https port redirection is setup on the OWA server. All translations access-lists are fine...

I have a cisco VPN client installed on Windows vista.When trying to connect it shows connection terminated by the Peer.(443 error).Can any one help me out in diagnoising this issue.

I am new to firewalls, so please excuse my ignorance. My company has several PIX 501 firewalls in place for a SCADA project. We have 2 more to add in. I have used the same configuration from one of the known-good PIXs for my new PIXs aside from putti...

I am configuring a new ASA with a DMZ for my web server. I need to have certain websites able to pass traffic to SQL servers on the inside interface and people from the inside able to hit websites on the web server, but I want to make sure that the ...

If I have two asas in active/standby with ips in each, how does that work, do I need to assign separate ip addresses and then define each separately to MARS

HelloI was wondering about something with the security context feature of ASAs. Can you daisy chain contexts internally without binding them to physical interface? It shows in the ASA book to use external routers to go between contexts but I would pr...

I made some change (ACL) via command line yesterday, and after that I was unable to use PDM to manage the PIX even the config was fallbacked to the day before. The PDM always in the status of "loading PIX Device Manager. Please wait..." Is there any ...

We have 2 x 525 with PIX Version 6.3(3)132. ASSUMING ver 8 is the "best" (ie most secure) version - do we need to upgrade to ver 7 first or can we go straight from 6.3 to 8 (subject to possible additional memory requirements)Cisco.com appears to stat...

Hi, i have to make site to site VPN with 2 branches but i have discovered that they have the same network 192.168.0.0 which i need to put in my interesting traffic ACL, if either can't change this network what to do ?Thanks