Category: Security
RSA 7.1 with On-Demand
RSA token security provides a way to strengthen the security on public services. Token authentication is most often implemented with hardware tokens. RSA 7.1 has additional methods of token authentication besides the hardware tokens: Token delivery by SMS; Token delivery by e-mail; To enable the above features you have to install at least RSA 7.1 … Read More
Cisco ASA: DNS reply filtering
Today I was asked to block access to multiple websites and the only device capable of doing this was the firewall. This customer is using a Cisco ASA firewall, which supports basic URL filtering. This customers wanted to block HTTP and HTTPS websites. HTTPS websites use a SSL tunnel from the end device to the … Read More
Redundant DMVPN network
Today I looked at the configuration DMVPN (Dynamic Multipoint VPN). A Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network is an enhancement of the virtual private network (VPN) configuration process of Cisco IOS-based routers. DMVPN prevents the need for pre-configured (static) IPsec peers in crypto-map configurations and ISAKMP peer statements. This feature of Cisco IOS allows greater scalability … Read More
RSA 7.1 supported under ESX 3.5
More and more people would like to implement OTP (One Time Password) solutions. RSA is one of multiple vendors for OTP solutions. I also notice the wish to implement and support OTP with on-demand tokens, like SMS and e-mail. RSA supports on-demand tokens, but the minimum RSA Authentication Manager version required is 7.1. Not only … Read More
Secure LDAP between Softerra and Novell NDS
Softerra LDAP Browser is a powerful tool for browsing servers, which support LDAP. Using Softerra LDAP Browser against a Novell NDS with secure LDAP is a different story. A secure LDAP connection is a connection which uses SSL certificates to encrypt the data stream. I had to use my LDAP Browser to query a Novell … Read More
RSA LDAP query failed
While configuring a LDAP mapping for a RSA Authentication Manager 6.1 with an Active Directory Domain Controller, I received the following error while running the Synchronisation task c:\RSA\prog\sdldapsync.exe -j 102 “[LDAP search] Search failed (check Base DN)” At first I thought about a typo while configuring the Synchronisation task. To test the LDAP connection with … Read More