There are a number of reasons or circumstances where you may need to rebuild your Cisco IDS. Rebuilding refers to the reinstallation of the application software. This will tho mean that all of your configuration changes will be wiped, apart from your management configuration when reimaging your sensor via the CLI. There are 3 ways … Read more
Digital Signatures A Digital Signature is a method to ensure data authenticity. A digital signature is created by generating a hash (message digest) against the data and then encrypting this digest using the cryptography (public or private) key. This signature is then appended to the data. Once the recipient has received the data + signature … Read more
This article provides the steps required for restoring a CS-MARS configuration (incidents, events, configuration etc) to another CS-MARS device whilst maintaining the devices original IP settings. The following steps are based on restoring the an archive from a device which is the same model and is also running the same software version. NFS Ensure that … Read more
The prompt state command was introduced within 7.1. This short example shows you how to configure your ASA to include the cluster state within its name : cisco-firewall# config t cisco-firewall (config)# prompt hostname state cisco-firewall/act(config)#
There are 4 main types of IDS alerts. These are : True Positive Bad traffic which triggers an alert. False Positive Good traffic which triggers an alert. False Negative Bad traffic, but no alert is raised. True Negative Good traffic, and no alert is raised.
Within CS-MARS there are 2 types of rules. Inspection Rules and Drop Rules. Inspection Rules allow you to trigger events based on certain triggers such as keywords, source, destination etc. Drop rule is an exception rule which MARS uses to ignore a behaviour that would otherwise trigger an event. In this example we will configure … Read more
Horizontal Scan A horizontal scan is described as scan against a group of IPs for a single port. Vertical Scan A vertical scan is described as a single IP being scanned for multiple ports. Box Scanning A combination of both vertical and horizontal scans.
Web services rely on the transfer of XML data. This poses a threat from the point of view that every packet possible could be malicious. Hackers may send SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) packets containing executable messages, crafted windows/SQL executables within XML packets or even initiate a XDoS (XML DoS attack). As the name suggested … Read more
Below shows you the steps required in install Cisco MARS 6.0.7 onto VMware. !! This is purley a proof of concept and we do not endorse the use of the steps below in any environment (or situation) !! Steps : First of all download the recovery ISO from Cisco for CS MARS 6.0.7. Download the … Read more
You may find that there is a time in which you haven’t got access via the standard ASAOS CLI to change, amend or edit your current configuration. In this example we will show you the steps required for removing the configuration via ROMMON mode. Here are the steps : 1. Reboot the device2. On boot … Read more
In order to to enable SecureID authentication you will need to generate an ‘sdconf.rec’ file from your ACE SERVER.You will then need to copy this file to the the ‘/var/ace‘ directory of your Check Point Firewall (if the directory does not exsist create one). At the point that your ACE SERVER and your ACE AGENT … Read more
Below are a couple of ASA caputre examples. This is meant for more of a copy and paste function then an overall capture tutorial. access-list based access-list capture1-acl permit ip host [ip] host [ip]capture capture1 type access-list capture1-acl interface [interface] host / port based capture capture2 [interface] match ip host [ip] host [ip]capture capture3 [interface] … Read more
Below shows you the steps on how to configure a tunnel that will encapsulate your IPv6 traffic within an IPv4 tunnel. Please Note : Below uses the Zone Work which is the equivalent to Trust and contains eth1. Ethernet3 is the untrust interface. Enable IPv6 Add the following command and then reboot your device, set … Read more
A proxy-ID is used during phase 2 of Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Virtual Private Network (VPN) negotiations. Both ends of a VPN tunnel either have a proxy-ID manually configured (route-based VPN), or simply use a combination of source IP, destination IP and service in a tunnel policy. When phase 2 of IKE is negotiated, each … Read more
Fir3net.com is pleased to release dbdel ver3.1. This is basically a wrapper for Check Points existing dbver tool, but allows you to remove 100`s of Database Revisions with one simple command string. Unlike dbver where you have to add each database revision id. This allows you to add the amount your want to remove and … Read more
The following will show you how to save a full IPSO backup via the clish CLI. This will backup all of the operating system configuration such as routes, proxy arps, interface settings etc. Backup This will create a backup within the /var/backup/ directory called ipso-backup_[date].tgz clish -c “set backup manual filename ipso-backup”clish -c “set backup … Read more
Below shows you the commands required to change the IP address of an interface within clish on a IPSO Nokia gateway, add interface eth1c0 address IP [NEW IP]/[NETMASK] delete interface eth1c0 address [OLD IP] set interface eth1 speed 100M duplex full active on set interface eth1c0 enable Below gives you an example : nokia-firewall[admin]# clish … Read more
The main issue when creating a Site to Site VPN between parties is having the correct information on both sides. Below is a template for the information which is needed to build a VPN Site to2 Site tunnel. This template is designed to be copied and pasted and sent to the other parties. Please remember … Read more
This guide will outline OPSEC LEA and how it works within a Check Point Infrastructure. What is OPSEC LEA ? The OPSEC LEA (Log Export API) provides the ability to pull logs from a Check Point device based on the OPSEC SDK. OPSEC LEA listens on port tcp/18184 on the device (OPSEC LEA Server) which … Read more
This guide will explain the various steps required to set up Enpoint Connect using a Multiple Entry Point setup. Ok, so to start with Endpoint Connect is Check Points new Remote Access VPN Client other then SSL Network Extender is the only client supported on Windows 7 64-Bit. The main problem with SNX (SSL Network … Read more
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