Starting from IOS 12.4T Cisco are offering the facility for object groupings, those who use ASA/PIX will already be famliar with this concept. (more…)

I have always found looking for a new router IOS quite a long process to ensure you pick not only a reliable IOS but one that has the correct functionality.

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Here at CiscoNews, we are always interested to hear what people use to make their lives a little easier when administering Cisco kit.

Ill get the ball rolling with some of the tools we use and I would be interested to hear what you use too!

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This is an interesting little tool.
For a long time now people have asked us what to use to manage IDS/IPS systems and how to report based on that information.
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Cisco ASDM is used to manage the ASA and Pix families of firewalls. Version 6.1.1 got a release a little while ago and brought a few welcome tweaks. Mainly, the look and feel has been improved. The graphs, tables and Pie charts now look a little more like something you might show a non-technical person/Manager.

The interface graphing has also had the same improvements.

Get it at www.cisco.com with a valid service account

Cisco finally released version 6 of CSA. Its been a long time coming too!

Look HERE 

Hopefully this will be a little easier to live with than past versions. It also adds support for Windows Vista!!

Well, this one is not strictly related to Cisco but heavily related to Information Security. Basically, anyone responsible for configuration of Security Devices can make use of this software to secure their data.

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This one came as quite a suprise to me. There is no Cisco IPSEC based VPN client available for Vista 64. Not only that, but it does not look like there will be one any time soon. They are trying to nudge people in the direction of the AnyConnect client which uses TLS for security! Unfortunately, this cannot be used with the PIX series of hardware appliances.

As soon as we get more information on this front it will be posted here.

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,

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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