Archives: 2008 September

Have you ever scratched your head thinking of ways to extend your internet broadband access to additional rooms in your home? Or even how to put your XBOX or PS3 game console in your bedroom and still have it connected on your home network for playing online games? Fortunately there are solutions available that will [...]

Question: I have the following ClassB network 172.31.0.0/16 that I’m trying to create an access list for. I’d like to allow 172.31.240.0/24 but deny all else, so I’m looking the best way to accomplish this with 2 acl lines. Answer: The best way to accomplish the above is to explicitly allow the subnet you want and then [...]

Any networked device (computer, server, printer, router etc), needs an IP address to communicate either on the Internet or on its local area network (LAN). Especially for internet communication, this IP address has to be unique, in order to avoid address conflicts. The IP address that is used by a device to communicate on the [...]

By default, the network interface card setting for a windows computer is configured to receive a dynamic IP address from a DHCP server. However, it is sometimes necessary to assign a static IP address to your Home Network Computer or to a server on your Local Area Network. Assigning a static IP to your Home [...]

Cisco has recently entered the Physical Security market with video surveillance and access control solutions that integrate web-based software with video broadcast hardware for various physical security implementations.

Web applications are everywhere in our Internet era. Web servers suffer the most security attacks from all applications. I believe that having a  routine schedule for testing the web servers and web applications for security weaknesses is an essential step to protect the security of the whole organization. I suggest the following Web Vulnerability scanners for [...]