Tag: windows
Sophos UTM – An unsupported mechanism
I got some strange issues / problems while testing a Sophos UTM appliance with 9.004-34 software. The Web Security feature is filtering requests and using client authentication. The proxy is using Standard Mode with Active Directory SSO authentication. I testing the proxy by changing the proxy settings on a Citrix server. Everything was working without … Read More
Configuration Example, Security
Windows CA template – web server and private key export
Creating a web server certificate request is very easy when using a Windows CA server. There is one disadvantage. The requested certificate is directly stored in the user store (by default) or the local computer store, if specified during the request. The disadvantage is that you cannot export the requested certificate including the private keys. … Read More
Windows LDAPS expired
A lot of appliances and/or security solutions use LDAP to synchronize users from an Active Directory or an eDirectory environment. Active Directory is LDAP enabled by default. If you would like to harden your network, you would like to use LDAPS. LDAPS is a term to refer to LDAP communication over SSL. Intercepted LDAPS traffic … Read More
Juniper SA – Host Checker
Security is getting more and more important for people. I notice that especially IT manager would like to implement some kind of security measurements to improve the safety of their network and data. Lately I have been busy with configuring a Juniper SA solution. The customer wants to publish different kind of services through the … Read More
Where is the Internet Authentication Service?
Microsoft IAS server is often used as RADIUS server to authenticate VPN users or in conjunction with ISA reverse proxy to authenticate OWA users or PDA synchronization. Today I had to install an ISA reverse proxy server with ISA 2006 Standard and Exchange 2007. I wanted to install Microsoft IAS as RADIUS server to authenticate … Read More
Juniper SA publish custom ICA
I have deployed more Juniper SA 2000 appliance and in overall I am pleased with the working of the appliance. Sometimes we have minor problems when publishing ICA sessions through the appliance. My colleagues have customers with connection problems, where suddenly the ICA sessions get disconnected and we cannot find the cause of these disconnects. … Read More