Some DNS Resources Compiled

Working a lot around Response Policy Zone (RPZ) these days, it’s better to start collecting some valuable tools, whitepapers, research, best practises, etc DNS Servers Name Description BIND The most widely used DNS software on the Internet Bundy Integrated authoritative DNS and DHCP server (the continuation of the BIND 10) Dnsmasq A lightweight, easy to … Read more

F5 REST API Resources

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These are for me the best two resources if you want embrace Dev/Net/Sec Ops using F5 iControl   Just a sneak peak of what you can find: Mesos Marathon Container Integration Kubernetes Container Integration RedHat OpenShift Container Integration OpenStack Cloud Integration F5 Application Services Proxy Dockers Really recommended http://clouddocs.f5.com/ https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.HomePage.ashx

Spot Bad Traffic without decrypting it

How can we detect and mitigate a kill chain in encrypted traffic without breaking users privacy and same time  with minimal false positives? Cisco Catalyst 9k is the newest platform with this capability which is called Encrypted Traffic Analysis (ETS). Machine Learning & metadata seems to be the right ingredients to make the wheel work. … Read more

Cisco Catalyst reborn

Cisco announced a new platform, Catalyst 9k (fixed and modular), a new hit for the Enterprise Architecture. Some of the benefits i’ve captured: Secure segmentation with SD-Access Unmatched 60W POE on every access port DNA Center IoT readiness Cloud readiness IOS-XE UADP 2.0 StackWise Virtual IEEE1588 MACsec256 Encrypted Traffic Analysis (ETA) Licensing mode changed (no … Read more

Renewing my JNCIP-ENT

Once you got the email from the vendor saying something like “Your certification is about to expire”, the only thing which come to my mind is “Dam it! Again…..” So long story short, the exam is 120 minutes, 65 questions  and the same blueprint from last time. The only change i noticed was the Junos … Read more

InfoSecurity Europe 2017 at London

A great opportunity for a heads up on new trends and other insights.  This will be my first Infosec so it will be interesting meet other people from different angles. Great KeyNote Speakers are confirmed so far, don’t miss it! You can register here The Conference Programme has a lot to offer, it will be … Read more

CCIE and VR combined

It’s not April fools day, so what the title means? No chance to Cisco stay behind the software world! I would expect that Cisco will use VR soon as part of their Collaboration suite If you are going to Cisco Live US you can see this two Demos: BeTheRouter (BTR) – in this App, you … Read more