SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 6
Security 401.6 – Linux Security On the last day of the bootcamp we get the privilege to go through Linux Security. Day 6 also happens to be a shorter day as some students choose to leave early that day to…
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SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 5
Security 401.5 – Windows Security Can’t help but notice the ice cream bar on my post? Well day 5 is ice cream day! Instead of your usual sugary snacks, you get to line up for ice cream during one of…
SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 4
Security 401.4 – Secure Communications Day 4 was Crypto day. Brutal for those who are first timers and definitely not a breeze even if you’re a seasoned sysadmin. How many professionals even know the difference between Asymmetric and Symmetric encryption?…
SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 3
Security 401.3 – Internet Security Technologies On the third day of class, we started going into some of the actual technologies used in implementing security. The first topic covered is attack strategies and mitigation. Know thy enemy – Sun Tzu…
SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 2
Security 401.2 – Defense In Depth Some students coming out of day one might be relieved to find that day two is nothing like day one. Day two starts off with talking about risk and policy. “Layers 8 & 9…
SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 1
Security 401.1 – Networking Concepts First day of class was all about the fundamentals of networking. Arguably it is one of the more technically challenging days of the six day course – for those who don’t have a background in…
SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – 0
Arriving at Las Vegas & Caesars Palace The last time I was at Vegas was almost 4 years ago. Quite a few things have changed. Notably the airport had been renovated. Gone was the 80s looking baggage pickup area. The…
SANS – SEC401 Security Essentials Day – minus one
SEC401: Security Essentials Bootcamp Style It’s my first time enrolling on a SANS course. I decided to take the SEC401 Security Essentials bootcamp in Las Vegas this year as I thought it would give me an all round entry level…
How to setup a simple Cisco IOS Firewall
Classic Firewall There are two configuration models to setup a firewall on IOS; the classic firewall (used to be called CBAC – Context based access control) and the zone based firewall. In this post I’m going to document how to…
Cisco ASA 8.3+ NAT within a site to site VPN tunnel
I’ve written a post on how to setup a Cisco ASA site to site VPN tunnel here on pre 8.3 firmware. Now I’m going to write about how to make a VPN tunnel on post 8.3 firmware with emphasis on…