Down the road we’ll have posts covering Ekahau Site Survey and troubleshooting with MetaGeek Chanalyzer. With that in mind, let’s first take the time to understand the basics of Wireless LANs and get familiar with the terminology we’ll need to use these tools. Frequencies & Channels The air is full of electromagnetic waves ranging from […]
Palo Alto – URL Filtering
Today we’ll ease into Palo Alto Threat Prevention with a post on URL Filtering. As the name suggests, URL Filtering allows you to shape and control web traffic as it traverses your firewall. If you missed it, we previously defined the objects, rules and polices required to create a basic perimeter firewall which you can […]
Palo Alto – Perimeter Firewall
Overview Today we’ll take a look at the steps required to create a basic security perimeter on a Palo Alto firewall. In particular we’ll be focused on the network segmentation inherent in Palo Alto firewalls and the security and flexibility it imparts. We’ll touch on the three basic deployment methods, but specifically step through a […]
FortiGate WAN Load Balancing
Fortinet got a lot right with its FortiGate product line and load balancing is no exception. They’ve made it easy for administrators with modest networks to easily accomplish network redundancy and load balancing. While load balancing can be used for various applications, its commonly used for load balancing between two ISPs and this is the […]
Basic Cisco 1800 Configuration
Despite being all but EOL the Cisco 1800 line has some extremely versatile little devices with a good price point, which explains why you’ll see a fair number of them still kicking around. Sure they don’t have all the bells and whistle of some other manufactures, but the Cisco 1800 (and now 1900) stays true […]