Firewalling, Security

Cisco ASA: DNS reply filtering

RenĂ© Jorissen on August 28, 2009 7 Comments • Tags: #asa #cache #class #dns #drop #expression #filtering #inspect #inspection #map #policymap #regex #regular #request #url

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

Configuration Example, Security

Cygwin with OpenSSL for CSR generation

RenĂ© Jorissen on September 18, 2008 2 Comments • Tags: #certificate #csr #cygwin #generate #geotrust #openssl #request #signing #ssl #verisign

A lot of services, which are published to the Internet, are secured with SSL certificates. A lot of times we use SSL certificates to secure communications when implementing ISA reverse proxy servers, Citrix Secure Gateway servers and/or Cisco WebVPN portals. When you want to secure a connection with a SSL certificate you have to create … Read More