Not meant as a complete in depth guide but certainly enough to point you in the right direction here’s my list of the most commonly seen (from my point of view) HPE Aruba (e.g. the 2540, 2930F, 5400R series) fibre optics and their respective part numbers: The format is effectively <Speed> <Fibre Type> <Maximum Range> – <Part Code> 1Gbit Multi… Read more
Category: Networking
Detecting threats with inbound SSL (TLS) decryption
Today we have the answer to the question – Without SSL decryption how many threats/attempted vulnerability exploits/other bad stuff will I miss that are coming from the internet at my internally hosted (externally published) web sites and services? To run some simple tests (which will be detected as malicious attacks) I’m going to be running the Nessus scanner against a… Read more
Extracting TRAFFIC, THREAT, CONFIG and SYSTEM syslog from a Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewall with Graylog
Graylog is a brilliant (and Open Source) tool to easily capture logs from a variety of systems including good old fashioned syslog. In the screenshot guide below you will learn how to use a set of extractors I constructed to parse out useful information from PAN NGFW syslog. The link to the source files mentioned is: https://github.com/jamesfed/PANOSGraylogExtractor
CITC 19 The tiny development board for all your IoT needs!
It’s always a pleasure to run a presentation and at this years Oxford and Cambridge Colleges IT Conference has definitely been one of the highlights covering a new hobby – running all kinds of IoT applications on the ESP8266 micro-controller.
HPE ProCurve/Aruba turn off — MORE — (aka paging)
When running CLI commands against an HPE Aruba (previously ProCurve) switch that have long outputs you have likely encountered the line below. — MORE –, next page: Space, next line: Enter, quit: Control-C Although handy – on occasion you might need to turn this off. To do so simply run the command (no need to be in config mode for… Read more