I got an ASA 5505 firewall at a great price to use as a router at home and also to get some hands on with Cisco gear. First thing I did was change the WAN-interface MAC address to be able to pass my ...

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BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — Cisco's enterprise-class firewalls have at least a dozen vulnerabilities — four of which have been assigned CVE identifiers — that could allow attackers to infiltrate ...

Ever since Cisco announced the EoS/EoL of the PIX customers have been migrating to the ASA platform. The configuration migration is very straightforward but to make it even easier Cisco developed a ...

There are thousands of commands and subcommands available to configure a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, and as you gain knowledge of the appliance, you will find yourself using more and more of ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...

There are thousands of commands and subcommands available to configure a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, and as you gain knowledge of the appliance, you will find yourself using more and more of ...