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Cisco Services & Technologies

Renewing Cisco Certifications without sitting for…

Without a doubt, Cisco certifications and specializations are among the most popular vendor certifications in the IT industry, and earning them doesn’t come easy. Anyone who’s achieved a Cisco certif…

Cisco Firewalls

Upgrading - Uploading AnyConnect Secure Mobility…

This article will show how to download and upload the newer AnyConnect 4.x VPN clients to your Cisco ASA Firewall appliance (5500 & 5500-X Series) and configure WebVPN so that the newer AnyConnec…

Cisco Routers

Configuring Cisco Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)…

Our DMVPN Introduction article covered the DMVPN concept and deployment designs. We explained how DMVPN combines a number of technologies that give it its flexibility, low administrative overhead and…

Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

What is Cross-site Scripting (XSS)? Why XSS is a…

Part one of our two-part series on Cross-site scripting (XSS) explains what are XSS attacks. We also take a close look on how XSS exploits work (urls, cookies, web cache etc.) and analyze their impac…

Windows Servers

How to Install/Enable Telnet Client for Windows S…

IT professionals frequently need connectivity and management tools. The Telnet Client is one of the most basic tools for such activities. Using this tool, you can connect to a remote Telnet server an…

Security Service Edge (SSE)

Security Service Edge (SSE) Limitations & Disadva…

This article explores the Security Service Edge (SSE) portion of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and the need for holistic cybersecurity protections. We lightly touch upon the drivers for tighter…

VLAN Networks

The VLAN Concept - Introduction to VLANs

We hear about them everywhere, vendors around the world are constantly trying to push them into every type of network and as a result, the Local Area Network (LAN) we once knew starts to take a diffe…

SASE & SD-WAN Networks

The Most Common Worst Networking Practices and Ho…

In the rush to keep pace with the many challenges facing today’s organizations, all too often networking teams end up adopting practices and processes that are, shall we say, less than perfect. You p…

Network Fundamentals

Media Access Control - MAC Addresses

A MAC address, or Media Access Control address, is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment. It i…

Routing

OSPF - Part 6: OSPF LSA Types - Purpose and Funct…

Our previous article explained the purpose of Link State Update (LSU) packets and examined the Link State Advertisement (LSA) information contained within LSU packets. We also saw the most common LSA…

Windows Servers

Understanding, Creating, Configuring & Applying W…

This article explains what Group Policies are and shows how to configure Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Group Policies. Our next article will cover how to properly enforce Group Policies (Group…

SASE & SD-WAN Networks

WAN Optimization vs SD WAN Networks. Today’s Chal…

Enterprises have been successfully running WAN optimization appliances at their many distributed sites for years. The devices have done a good job of helping businesses squeeze as much capacity as po…