It's like clock work...around this time the seasons are changing..autumn colors are out, and the colder air reminds us that things are changing around here, embrace it! One thing that I've been working with is AWS Transit gateways, a common theme this year is all cloud! AWS Transit Gateways make it easier to move …

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I've been stuck in more ways then one this year...working from home indefinitely seems to be the status quo right now, and I'm in "tunnel" mode for most part. Most of these projects I'm working on all of common theme.. connect on-premise to more cloud resources! One way to do that is using VTIs. (Virtual …

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Let's continue to talk about the Cisco Firepower Management Center, in this post we are going to look at sending connection events over to syslog. In this example I'm using Graylog which is an open source logging platform and although any syslog server would work, one of the problems with syslogs is there is little …

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No management centers here, sometimes a standalone firewall is all you need. In this post I have a FTD appliance and there really isn’t a need tie this into Cisco’s Firepower Management Center. So we’ll configure appliance in standalone mode and go through the initial first steps that are required to get it online and …

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So, recently we enforced some firewall rules on a new environment, we did testing of the environment and everything was working as expected. In about 24 hours a lot of traffic from the web infrastructure was being denied and it continued, at first glance it looked like return traffic was being dropped, the web servers …

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