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17. März 2009

Books and equipment for the sec lab

Filed under: Certification,Security — ocsic @ 14:24

I hooked up myself to „security@groupstudy.com“ and have started to read some books. Still looking for other useful additions. Some of them have already arrived:

CIsco ASAA: All-in-one Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance

IPSec VPN Design

Penetration Testing and Network Defense

Cisco Access Control Security: AAA Administration Services

Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals

Most of them have been published 3 – 5 years ago. Some things might have changed, but most of it probably not. Since there are no newer editions. ACS will stay the same on version 4.1 in the lab, also for version 3 of the . IPS will be version 6.1. Seems like there is currently no virtual installation possible, like for ASA 8.0 also, at least no fully functional version. But pix with 8.0 should do it also. And IPS 5.1.8 might have not that much changes. ACS 4.1 is available as a 90 day trial installation. You can either install on windows 2003 or windows 2000 with the following versions:

•Windows 2000 Server (English version only)

•Windows 2000 Advanced Server (Service Pack 4) without features specific to Windows 2000 Advanced Server enabled or without Microsoft clustering service installed (English version only)

•Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition (Service Pack 1)

Source:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/4.1/installation/guide/windows/install.html

6. März 2009

What’s next…

Filed under: Allgemein — ocsic @ 01:11

Now it’s one week ago and i still sometime login to my cisco certification account and watch at the result of my exam. 🙂

But what comes next? Have you thought about this before? Forward-looking i was already thinking about taking another path. Did want to have more knowledge about security. I was think about Service Provider also. But this is not as close to me, as security is, in the sense of building up a network. I take the path from LAN to WAN then after R&S, Security comes first and after that Service Provider. Had also already more experience in security and side effects will be better for me with security, i think. Also in April the security lab, will have some interesting updates as the pix and the concentrator will be removed from the lab.

Well, i have my little family and my son is still small. But now he is already close to his first birthday. Time runs, as i can just notice often.

So i will take the time i can spare to start the security track and start learning in the near future.

I will have to build my rack and have already seen that most of the devices can be build with dynamips/dynagen, pemu and vmware. So i will share my buildup and proceedings and populate my blog with more security topics in the future.

Will have some holiday also, if you think now, i should take that first.

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