Some of you may remember portsdb.org which was a valuable tool when searching for port information, but unfortunately this website has been gone and thought to be lost for over 2 years. Cisconews is proud to announce its impending resurrection!!! (more…)

This guide covers configuration of remote access (client) VPN on a Cisco ASA or PIX Firewall using the wizard (This should transfer quite well to Cisco Routers also). It is aimed at beginners to VPNs.

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Truecrypt is a tool I use quite often, it is basically a FREE encryption tool, much like DriveCrypt.

You can even use a file to decrypt with as opposed to a password. It really is a very good piece of software. The fact that it is free is just a nice big bonus

Check it out for yourselves:

http://www.truecrypt.org/
Cheers,

Hi All,

Just a quick post to let you in on a useful resource for studying. www.mindcert.com is a site dedicated to using Mind Mapping to increase recall and aid study. At the moment, the site is running through both the CISSP and Certified Ethical Hacker modules, with more to come down the line.

The interesting thing is, the guy who runs the site (none other than Andrew Mason - Author of various Cisco Press Study titles) was my boss for 4 years. Believe me when I say this, if there is one person you want to listen to regarding study and certification, Andrew is that person.He converted quite a lot of people I know over to mind maps, including myself.

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How about being able to load IOS into a “virtual router” for your training and study purposes? That would be pretty cool right? Read on…..

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Hi Again,
So the last screenshots were very poor in terms of quality so here are a couple more. These show the much needed graphing section of ASA. It looks like they took one or two ideas from CS MARS on this one, what with the “top 10″ lists of protocol, destination and source. Quite a nice way to break down what’s going on and where.

I’m going to add more shots of the interface over the next couple of days then do a short write-up on the changes.