Port Forwarding for Palo Alto Firewalls
I recently purchased a Palo Alto PA-220 for home use, labbing, and studying as well. Setup went pretty straight forward with a bit of trial and error, but then I started going a little...
Cisco NX-OS TACACS+ Setup Guide
Quick post here, nothing much to it. This will be a straight forward guide to NX-OS TACACS+ Setup. TACACS+ was developed by Cisco as an extension to TACACS that fully encrypts each packet. This...
Cisco IPS / IME Certificate Error
At some point if you are a user of Cisco's IPS product, you may have found it beneficial to use IME (IPS Manager Express). If you are not familiar with it, basically it is...
Asymmetric NAT rules matched for forward and reverse flows
I was configuring a basic VPN configuration on my home Cisco ASA firewall so I could monitor a few things locally on my network while I was out with my iPhone. Being a Friday...
Firepower 4100/9300 – Reset to Factory Default
I recently began working on a project with a Firepower 4100 chassis. When I powered on the appliance I quickly realized that the setup would be different than a normal Firepower device. The console...
Cisco SecureX – A Single Security Pane of Glass
As long as there have been security products on the market, there have been management interfaces and systems to go with them. Taking that a step further, there have been products to try to...
Firepower Firewall – View Clear Text Config
With Cisco Firepower, your configuration is done through a graphical interface on a day to day basis. Sometimes though, when troubleshooting, people revert to their old troubleshooting skills. This was the same for me...