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Network Protocol Analyzers

How to Detect P2P (peer-to-peer) File Sharing, ...

Peer-to-Peer file sharing traffic has become a very large problem for many organizations as users engage in illegal (most times) file sharing proce...
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How to Detect SYN Flood Attacks with Capsa Netw...

This article explains how to detect a SYN Flood Attack using an advanced protocol analyser like Colasoft Capsa. We’ll show you how to identify and ...
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Introducing Colasoft Unified Performance Manage...

Colasoft Unified Performance Management (UPM) is a business-oriented network performance management system, which analyzes network performance, qua...
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Advanced Network Protocol Analyzer Review: Cola...

Firewall.cx has covered Colasoft Capsa several times in the past, but its constant improvements make it well worth revisiting. Since the last revie...

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Palo Alto Networks

Introduction to Palo Alto Next-Generation Network Fi...

During the past decade, we’ve seen the global IT security market flooded with new network security and firewall security appliances. New vendors emergin...
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Palo Alto Firewall Application-based Policy Enforcem...

Our previous article examined the benefits of Palo Alto Networks Firewall Single Pass Parallel Processing (SP3) architecture and how its combine with th...
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Palo Alto Firewalls Security Zones – Tap Zone, Virtu...

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls rely on the concept of security zones in order to apply security policies. This means that access lists (fi...
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How to Register a Palo Alto Firewall and Activate Su...

This article explains how to register and activate your Palo Alto Firewall Appliance to obtain technical support, RMA hardware replacement, product upda...

Windows Servers

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Microsoft Licensing for Virtual environments can become a very complicated topic, especially with all the misconceptions and false information out there...
Windows Servers

Creating Windows Users and Groups with Windows 2003

In a Windows server environment, it is very important that only authenticated users are allowed to log in for security reasons. To fulfill this requirem...
Windows Servers

Simple Guide on Installing & Configuring a Windows 2...

A Windows Active Directory Certification Authority server (AD CA), also known as a Certificate Authority, is an essential service to every organization’...
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Windows 2003 DHCP Server Advanced Configuration - Pa...

In this article, we will cover more advanced DHCP features and topics such as server options, superscopes, multicast scopes, dynamic DNS, DHCP database ...

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VLAN Networks

VTP Protocol - In-Depth Analysis

The previous article introduced the VTP protocol, we examined how it can be used within a network, to help manage VLANs and ease the administrative over...
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Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol - EIGRP

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), similar to IGRP, is a Cisco proprietary routing protocol that is used to exchange routing informatio...
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5 Most Critical Microsoft M365 Vulnerabilities Revea...

Microsoft 365 is an incredibly powerful software suite for businesses, but it is becoming increasingly targeted by people trying to steal your data. The...
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How to Install Windows 2012 Hyper-V via Server Manag...

Our previous article covered the basic concepts of Virtualization and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.  This article takes a closer look at Microsoft’s...

Cisco Switches

End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cis...

Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Catalyst 3750G, 3560G, 3750-E, and 3560-E Series Switches. The last day to order the...
Cisco Routers

How and Why You Should Verify IOS Images On Cisco Ro...

Chances are we’ve all needed to upgrade our Cisco’s device IOS software at some point. While upgrading the IOS software on a Cisco device is considered ...
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Cisco Type 7 Password Decrypt / Decoder / Crack Tool

The Firewall.cx Cisco Password Decoder Tool (see below) provides readers with the ability to decrypt 'Type 7' cisco passwords. For security reasons, we...
Cisco CallManager-CCME

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When it comes to connecting multiple analog phones to VoIP systems like Cisco’s Unified Communication Manager Express (CallManager Express) or UC500 ser...