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Tag: Cisco

Cisco Blog Awards

Nominated for the IT Blog Awards

December 10, 2018 Media, News Leave a comment

This morning, I received a mail from Cisco to tell me that I’ve been nominated as finalist for their IT Blog Awards (Category: “Most Inspirational”). I’m maintaining this blog just for the fun and to share useful (I hope) information with my readers and don’t do this to get rewards

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SANS ISC

[SANS ISC] “OG” Tools Remain Valuable

October 10, 2018 Incident Management, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security Leave a comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “‘OG’ Tools Remain Valuable“: For vendors, the cybersecurity landscape is a nice place to make a very lucrative business. New solutions and tools are released every day and promise you to easily detect malicious activities on your networks. And it’s a recurring story.

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Online Router Forensics Lab

September 30, 2014 Forensics, Hardware, Security One comment

When my friend Didier Stevens contacted me last year to help him with a BruCON 5×5 project, I simply could not decline! Didier developed a framework to perform forensic investigations on Cisco routers. His framework is called NAFT (“Network Appliance Forensic Toolkit”). It is written in Python and provides a

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Integrating OpenERP Within a Cisco IP Phone

November 5, 2013 Software 8 comments

For once, this article is not directly related to “infosec“. My blog  isn’t called “/dev/random” for nothing, right? In parallel to my dayly job as an Information Security Consultant and my blogger experience at night, I’m also doing business via my own company, TrueSec (<advertising>Feel free to contact me if you’re

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Cisco Routers : Penguins Inside?

April 16, 2008 Net, Software, Unix Leave a comment

It has been officially announced by Cisco: Application eXtension Platform (AXP) enhances the capabilities of the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) by enabling a tighter integration between the branch network, IT and application infrastructure. Ok, what does it mean? High-end routers were already able to run TCL scripts. Now, thanks

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Cisco Acquired Sguil

April 1, 2008 Net, Security, Software Leave a comment

Announced on TaoSecurity, Cisco acquired Sguil. Sguil is a monitoring tool for network security anaylists. It provides realtime traffic analysis and goes deeper up to the raw packet level. Why is Sguild a nice opportinity for Cisco? It’s developed in TCL and high-end Cisco routers and switches have TCL builtin!

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