http://www.cio-asia.com/print-article/83747/
"According to Secunia, 22 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003 were unpatched as of March 31, 2015, and Microsoft has not announced if any of these issues will be addressed in security updates released before the July support deadline. "The operating system will likely contain unaddressed vulnerabilities now Microsoft has discontinued support, essentially acting as perpetual zero-day vulnerabilities.
Monday, July 27, 2015
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Aerohive Setup
http://www.aerohive.com/cloud/ ---> Try HiveManagerNG
three step process to verify account, and get password set up.
Aerohive communitry forums: https://community.aerohive.com/aerohive
learning what's new documentation:
http://www.aerohive.com/330000/docs/help/english/ng/learning-whats-new.htm
After setting up password, I assume I am in my online HiveManager account. It starts out listing steps for getting started. Currently have 7 different tabs open and have reviewed online documentation, including storing reference material in Google Drive. However not feeling overwhelmed and liking the planning walk through currently in home screen.
Next? Onboarding Access Point or Look at log-in and log-out settings as well as two factor config.
The online and included paper documentation suggest onboarding device... I believe I want to learn a little more about the sign-in features.
Account details look really straight forward. There is logging information and device management settings I need to get familiar with. Going ahead and logging out.
https://cloud.aerohive.com/login#/login
Account sign-in is set up with email address. Reset of forgotten password is with send email link at page. Very user friendly for users that do not store passwords well.
Onboarding access point is connecting the access point to router with dhcp. I am plugging directly into ISP home router bypassing my TZ215 for easiest access. I need to get more familiar with setting up multiple WAN uplinks through VLAN enabled switch. It would be appropriate to set up policy with multiple SSID and routing LAN access through SonicWall. That setup will need to be for later date, also would like an appropriate network switch with VLAN tags to test with.
However setting up initial Wifi policy for simple PSK WLAN access is easy and straight forward. I have had to go back through the policy and hit the upload button for the new SSID to show up on wireless devices. Also another thing to point out is that the access point 130 is packaged well but does not come with any patch cables. Installation will require separate purchase or already own patch cables for deployment.
I am going to turn off SonicWall Wifi, no need for two different services running at the same time.
Now time to test connectivity for home devices...
HTC one is connected well; Google streaming video and music, pulling up news, and refreshed reddit all really well.
Dashboard is showing three clients connected and showing host name on PCs and android os for third client. Awesome user tracking right there.
I am not seeing an easy way to implement web content filtering to block pornography that can be set up on sonicwall in a few clicks. Maybe I need to do more research in AP security settings. As it stands now three hours from reading and organizing documentation to setup is really good for initial user experience. I will need to work with colleagues on fine tuning AP130 for different SSIDs to different client connectivity options.
three step process to verify account, and get password set up.
Aerohive communitry forums: https://community.aerohive.com/aerohive
learning what's new documentation:
http://www.aerohive.com/330000/docs/help/english/ng/learning-whats-new.htm
After setting up password, I assume I am in my online HiveManager account. It starts out listing steps for getting started. Currently have 7 different tabs open and have reviewed online documentation, including storing reference material in Google Drive. However not feeling overwhelmed and liking the planning walk through currently in home screen.
Next? Onboarding Access Point or Look at log-in and log-out settings as well as two factor config.
The online and included paper documentation suggest onboarding device... I believe I want to learn a little more about the sign-in features.
Account details look really straight forward. There is logging information and device management settings I need to get familiar with. Going ahead and logging out.
https://cloud.aerohive.com/login#/login
Account sign-in is set up with email address. Reset of forgotten password is with send email link at page. Very user friendly for users that do not store passwords well.
Onboarding access point is connecting the access point to router with dhcp. I am plugging directly into ISP home router bypassing my TZ215 for easiest access. I need to get more familiar with setting up multiple WAN uplinks through VLAN enabled switch. It would be appropriate to set up policy with multiple SSID and routing LAN access through SonicWall. That setup will need to be for later date, also would like an appropriate network switch with VLAN tags to test with.
However setting up initial Wifi policy for simple PSK WLAN access is easy and straight forward. I have had to go back through the policy and hit the upload button for the new SSID to show up on wireless devices. Also another thing to point out is that the access point 130 is packaged well but does not come with any patch cables. Installation will require separate purchase or already own patch cables for deployment.
I am going to turn off SonicWall Wifi, no need for two different services running at the same time.
Now time to test connectivity for home devices...
HTC one is connected well; Google streaming video and music, pulling up news, and refreshed reddit all really well.
Dashboard is showing three clients connected and showing host name on PCs and android os for third client. Awesome user tracking right there.
I am not seeing an easy way to implement web content filtering to block pornography that can be set up on sonicwall in a few clicks. Maybe I need to do more research in AP security settings. As it stands now three hours from reading and organizing documentation to setup is really good for initial user experience. I will need to work with colleagues on fine tuning AP130 for different SSIDs to different client connectivity options.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
DSG Data Protection
http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/software-data-protection
So a large challenge facing many businesses of all sizes is managing data. Both structured and unstructured data is increasing by anywhere from 40 to 60 percent according to IDC. Unstructured data is getting stored anywhere and everywhere; While structured data gives better insight with the more information that you can give it. Both Forrester and Ponemon research says that on average it takes a full day to recover from an outage and half the time there is lost data when doing the restore.
Dell's point of view is a compelling reason to put together the best in class software with hardware to provide a simplified data protection plan that is affordable and provides return on investment throughout data management life cycle.
Dell has a number of options that can be combined specific to the business's cost, performance, and goals. Dell Software portfolio protects physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Each of these solutions is built and proven at a few terabytes to full rack scale out architecture.
We have a teams of talented people who would like to talk about the organization's data classification, recovery objectives, and IT infrastructure. Then putting together a particular plan that fits the business RPO and RTO objectives. These plans can range from business critical applications backed up every 15 minutes to deduped, compressed, encrypted, and fully replicated offsite disaster recovery solution.
Really quickly:
NetVault allows us to back up nearly everything out there in the market for a disk to disk to tape solution. NetVault allows organizations to make the most of existing resources.
vRanger is our agentless virtual machine backup software. It backs up both VMware and Hyper-V. It is the only agentless VM backup software on the market that I know of.
AppAssure is the king of RPO and RTO with continous system, data, and application protection. This software technology backups only the block changes as frequently as 5 minutes.
The DL4000 appliance that is purpose built appliance for AppAsure has Live Recovery technology allowing you to restore user access to application and terabytes of data in mere minutes.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Six Steps to SIEM Success
Checking out AlienVault and taking notes:
SIEM event collection and correlation engine (fancy words for a database).
It is an extra layer of management on top of the different layers of defense that should be in place.
It gives you a lens to focus in on an event or chain of events (through if/then statements).
It looks at events in a particular order from different equipment from the network.
Different pieces of the defense:
IDS, intrusion detection services
HIDS, host intrusion detection services
Services Logs
Asset Management
SIEM is to bring these layers of management together but this database does not give good data back unless it is fed good data consistently in the first place.
SIEM event collection and correlation engine (fancy words for a database).
It is an extra layer of management on top of the different layers of defense that should be in place.
It gives you a lens to focus in on an event or chain of events (through if/then statements).
It looks at events in a particular order from different equipment from the network.
Different pieces of the defense:
IDS, intrusion detection services
HIDS, host intrusion detection services
Services Logs
Asset Management
SIEM is to bring these layers of management together but this database does not give good data back unless it is fed good data consistently in the first place.
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