Re: VPN Client behind PIX [7:64358]

2003-03-04 Thread Charles Riley
You may be able to avoid throwing a VPN concentrator into the mix just yet. Need more information before this can be answered, but it could be that the source address of your home system is being NATed, which can interface with IPsec. It could be that your Pix is blocking. Before you tear into y

Re: Log files Pix & Chkpnt [7:63646]

2003-02-24 Thread Charles Riley
Try www.micromuse.com or logboss at http://www.securityprofiling.com/logboss.htm. HTH, Charles wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Does anyone know of a product that will merge log files from multiple > sources Snort, PIX, Checkpoint, etc...? > > I'm trying to centralize much of ou

Re: Re: Snort versus Cisco IDS [7:62939]

2003-02-13 Thread Charles Riley
There are also some very nice prebuilt Snort sensors with a GUI from the following vendors. www.sourcefire.com www.silicondefense.com www.packetalarm.com I have had the opportunity to evaluate and configure products from all three, and they have done an excellent job of bringing Snort to the mas

Re: New Instructor Experiences [7:62826]

2003-02-11 Thread Charles Riley
John, Sounds like you had what I call a "Floating Talking Head" experience. It's happened to me before. Basically, you are in the middle of teaching, presenting, or briefing, and you experience a trippy sensation of almost being outside yourself. As you talk, your self awareness gets distorted,

Re: Checkpoint NG trial licence needed [7:62823]

2003-02-11 Thread Charles Riley
Chris, Got this off of www.firewall-1.org, not exactly what you are looking for but at least you can play with the GUI until CP comes through You need an eval licence to have a fully functional product for 30 days. But if what you want is to see the GUI interface (not functionall at all), yo

Re: CCIE Lab - I have seen he future and it is.... [7:62776]

2003-02-11 Thread Charles Riley
o Nuts"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello Charles, > > With due respect I ask, why did you abandon your quest for the CCIE? I am > curious as to how many times you actually hit the Lab? > > Sincerely, > > CN > > >

Re: CCIE Lab - I have seen he future and it is.... [7:62776]

2003-02-10 Thread Charles Riley
Chuck, Your post reminds me of those weird little ice cream stands that I sometimes see at the mall and various carnivals. It's called something like "Dipping Dots - The Ice Cream of the Future". The initial human instinct is much like the Cro-Magnon humanoids encountering the monolith at the b

Re: PIX firewall simultaneous connections [7:62575]

2003-02-06 Thread Charles Riley
I believe that if you check the Cisco website or documentation, you will see that it defines a session as a single TCP or UDP connection. If somehow you had 2M users, yet their total number of sessions never exceeded 500K, then your firewall could handle 2M users. I am not addressing performance

Re: what the h... - strange problem - MORE INFO [7:62184]

2003-01-30 Thread Charles Riley
letting users > download .exe files via e-mail attachments might make a lot of sense as an > e-mail server configuration. > > Anyway, start looking at Layer 7 and above (politics, policies). Question > your Internet provider! > > Priscilla > > Charles Riley wrote: > > &g

Re: what the h... - strange problem - Cisco doesn't like [7:62148]

2003-01-29 Thread Charles Riley
ap first, reboot > and then install analyzer. > > http://winpcap.polito.it/install/default.htm > http://analyzer.polito.it/install/default.htm > > Then you can see if the packets are coming back to you and if windows is > dropping them for some reason. > > ""Charles R

Re: wireless [7:62104]

2003-01-29 Thread Charles Riley
John, It's a little dated, but alot of folks like 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly Networking) (Matthew S. Gast). I have that book and it provides some very good detail on A and B, but little on G which just emerging as the book went to press. The below is an excellent s

what the h... - strange problem - Cisco doesn't like Windows? [7:62144]

2003-01-29 Thread Charles Riley
I ran across a strange problem with one of our POPs the other day, and am in the process of researching/troubleshooting it. We have a configuration something like this: "Internet"---2500---AS5300---D/U Users Not shown is a LAN connected to the 2nd Ethernet on the 2500. All c

Re: Help with pix firewall logging [7:61902]

2003-01-26 Thread Charles Riley
It may that no alerts at the "warnings" level have occured. Trying setting it at a high level such as 6 or 7 (which pretty much logs everthing). Once you have ascertained that logging between the PIX and syslog server are working, then restore it back to the warnings level. HTH, Charles ""Eli

Re: Cisco VPN Client 4.0 -- BETA [7:61589]

2003-01-22 Thread Charles Riley
Robert, What new features does it have,and what problems will it solve? TIA, Charles ""Robert Raver"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hey, > > For all those interested the 4.0 VPN Client(BETA) will be in March/April. > This VAN Client is totally rebuilt and has

Re: OT well, sort of - IDS [7:61523]

2003-01-21 Thread charles riley
I like the various SNORT products...non-proprietary (or as close as this field gets). SNORT looks good (www.snort.org) And if you don't have time to build your own, try: www.sourcfire.com www.silicondefense.com Heck, even Packet Alarm may be an option though you will not find any contact inform

Re: OT: Making data centers HIPAA compliant - what is required [7:61462]

2003-01-21 Thread Charles Riley
;Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 5:23 PM + 1/20/03, Charles Riley wrote: > >Sorry for the OT post, but have searched high and low, and no definite > >answer in site. Really, really apoliogize for the nont

Re: OT: Making data centers HIPAA compliant - what is [7:61396]

2003-01-20 Thread Charles Riley
Thanks to Priscilla, I think the below may be what I was looking for...more reading before I make a final determination. http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/nprm/seclist.htm Thanks! ""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: Making data centers HIPAA compliant - what is [7:61395]

2003-01-20 Thread Charles Riley
HIPAA compliant" are doing the equivalent of individuals putting "CCIE Written" on their resumes? Charles ""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Charles Riley wrote: > > > > Sorry for the

OT: Making data centers HIPAA compliant - what is required - [7:61383]

2003-01-20 Thread Charles Riley
Sorry for the OT post, but have searched high and low, and no definite answer in site. Really, really apoliogize for the nontechnical nature of this post, but I have reached a wall after searching all over for an answer. I guess you could say that I am "ill" with searching... HIPAA is an medical i

Re: Off Topic: Re: Profession Cert or PhD!!! [7:60385]

2003-01-05 Thread charles riley
Please, kill this thread. It is contributing highly to bandwidth waste. If you love Cisco and networking, get your CCIE. If you love academia over everything else, get your Ph.D. If you love both equally, get them both. Bottom line is that both are hard to attain, and unless you got the love f

OT: IPX and AppleTalk Network Scanner [7:59139]

2002-12-12 Thread Charles Riley
Hi, all Apologies in advance for this slightly OT, but can anyone point me in the direction of a scanner that can scan and enumerate IPX-only and AppleTalk-only networks? That is, scan and identify devices on a network running IPX only or AppeTalk only...no IP. I would prefer something that di

RE: Security Policy [7:52061]

2002-08-28 Thread Charles Riley
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > > Password structure is too detailed for the security policy, > although > it's necessary in the security design. The policy should state > something on the order that people must protect their > passwords, > whether they can or cannot change their own, etc. > OK,

RE: Security Policy [7:52061]

2002-08-27 Thread Charles Riley
While security policies need to be unique per organization, there are some common elements that can be recycled. Just to give an example, how about the handling of passwords? Really, do you need to re-create the piece of the policy that says passwords need to be protected, must be of a certain l