I’ve been following Palo Alto as a networking company for a couple of years now. Their claim is that the days of the port-based firewall are dead and that their application-centric approach is a far better way to enforce your access controls. Take the HTTP protocol for example. HTTP typically runs as a service on […]
About a week ago I turned on a new rule on our IPS system that is designed to detect (and block) users who are using TOR to make their activities on our network anonymous. You can say that TOR is about protecting a user’s privacy all you want, but I’d argue that while using corporate […]
This post is going to be short and sweet as it’s something I meant to put up here when I found it sometime back in mid-2011. I’m not even sure if Time Warner is still using these Ubee cable modems for their RoadRunner offering, but I’m sure that there are at least a few people […]
