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July 1, 2025
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July 1, 2025
Secure Firewall – Network Discovery: Creating policies, Custom Fingerprinting, Custom Network Topology, and more
July 1, 2025
Secure Firewall – URL Filtering
July 1, 2025
Secure Firewall – High Availability
June 30, 2025
Secure Firewall – Prefilter Policy
June 30, 2025
Secure Firewall Device Administration – Part 4: Platform Settings, Multicast Routing, QoS, uRPF, and Fragmentation
June 28, 2025
Secure Firewall Device Administration – Part 3: NAT
June 28, 2025
Secure Firewall Device Administration – Part 2: OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, Static Routes, IPv6 Routing, and SLA Monitoring
June 26, 2025
Secure Firewall – Transparent Mode
June 25, 2025
Secure Firewall Device Administration – Part 1: Management, Interfaces, and BGP Configuration
June 23, 2025
Secure Firewall Management Center Administration Part 1
June 23, 2025
Secure Firewall Overview and Packet Flow
June 22, 2025
ASA Clustering
June 22, 2025
Understanding Security Contexts on Cisco ASA
June 22, 2025
ASA Failover
June 22, 2025
ASA Transparent Mode Firewall
June 22, 2025
Modular Policy Framework (MPF) on ASA
June 21, 2025
IPSec VPN on Cisco ASA
June 21, 2025
Understanding Cut-Through Proxy (CTP) in Cisco ASA
June 21, 2025
ASA: NAT Theory and Configuration
June 20, 2025
Cisco ASA Basics: Part 2 – Packet Flow, DHCP, Fragmentation, Management, Monitoring, and Routing
June 20, 2025
A Deep Dive into Cisco Secure Email Appliance: Part 1
June 20, 2025
Understanding Cisco Secure Web Appliance: Part 1
June 20, 2025
Just A Bunch of IOS Remote Access VPN Configuration Examples
June 19, 2025
Configuring Remote Access VPN on Cisco ASA
June 19, 2025
Understanding Remote Access VPNs
June 19, 2025
Just A Bunch of FlexVPN Configuration Examples
June 18, 2025
Deep Diving into IKEv2 & IPSec VPNs Troubleshooting: Protocols, Tools, and Debugging Techniques
June 18, 2025
Monitoring IPsec VPNs: Tools, Protocols, and Best Practices
June 18, 2025
VPN Deep Dive: IPSec Overhead and Fragmentation
June 18, 2025
Diving Deep Deep Deep into FlexVPN – Part 5: FlexVPN Load Balancer
June 18, 2025
Diving Deep Deep Deep into FlexVPN – Part 4: FlexVPN Client Operations
June 18, 2025
Diving Deep Deep Deep into FlexVPN – Part 3: FlexVPN Server Operations
June 18, 2025
Diving Deep Deep Deep into FlexVPN – Part 2: Configuring and Debugging FlexVPN
June 18, 2025
Diving Deep Deep Deep into FlexVPN – Part 1
June 17, 2025
OCSP and Certificate Mapping for Cisco Routers
June 17, 2025
Understanding IKEv2: Enhancements Over ISAKMP and Why It Matters
June 17, 2025
Understanding VPN Configuration Differences Between Cisco ASA and IOS Devices
June 17, 2025
Verifying and Troubleshooting GETVPN
June 16, 2025
Just A Bunch of GETVPN Configuration Examples
June 16, 2025
Configuring GETVPN: Key Server and Group Member Setup
June 16, 2025
Troubleshooting DMVPN: A Dive into ISAKMP, IPSec, and NHRP Issues
June 16, 2025
Just A Bunch of DMVPN Configuration Examples
June 16, 2025
FlexVPN Overview and IKEv2 Deep Dive
June 16, 2025
Understanding GETVPN: Tunnel-less VPN for Private WANs
June 16, 2025
Integrating PKI with DMVPN: Certificate-Based Authentication in Cisco IOS
June 16, 2025
DMVPN Phase 3: The NHRP Redirect Revolution
June 16, 2025
DMVPN Phase 2: Enabling Spoke-to-Spoke Communication
June 16, 2025
DMVPN Phase 1: Hub-and-Spoke Architecture
June 16, 2025
Understanding DMVPN and MGRE: A Practical Overview
June 16, 2025
DMVPN Theory: Dynamic Multipoint VPN Theory & Architecture
June 16, 2025
Troubleshooting Site-to-Site IKEv1 VPN Issues in Cisco IOS
June 15, 2025
Just A Bunch of VPN Configuration Examples
June 14, 2025
Understanding How PKI-Based VPN Works
June 14, 2025
Fixing IPSec Tunnels with NAT Traversal (NAT-T)
June 14, 2025
Simplifying Site-to-Site VPNs with Static Virtual Tunnel Interfaces (SVTI)
June 14, 2025
Deep Diving into GRE Tunnels: Explanation, Configuration, and Optimization Tips
June 14, 2025
VRF-Aware IPSec L2L VPN on Cisco IOS
June 14, 2025
IPv6 VPNs on Cisco IOS: Considerations and Configuration with Certificate Authentication
June 14, 2025
Deep Dive into IOS CA and Certificate-Based IPSec VPN Authentication
June 14, 2025
Configuration Example: IPSec VPN Failover with HSRP and Redundancy
June 14, 2025
Configuration Example: Configuring an IOS Router as a CA
June 14, 2025
Configuration Example: Configuring IPSec LAN-to-LAN VPN
June 14, 2025
Introduction to IPSec
June 13, 2025
Introduction to ISAKMP
June 13, 2025
Understanding IKEv1: Main Mode and Aggressive Mode Exchanges
June 13, 2025
Understanding IKE: The Backbone of Secure VPN Negotiation
June 13, 2025
Encryption Types, PKI, and IPSec Components
June 13, 2025
VPN Theory Overview
June 13, 2025
Cisco ASA Link Redundancy
June 13, 2025
Cisco ASA Basics
November 24, 2024
Installing the fancy UI Meshtastic image on the Lilygo T-Deck Plus
November 24, 2024
Flashing the LilyGo T-Watch S3 with GhostESP
November 24, 2024
Quick overview of the M5Stick
November 24, 2024
Configuring and demoing Evil Portal on the Flipper Zero
September 18, 2024
Old Video: BYOD Configuration
September 18, 2024
Old Video: Switch Configuration
September 18, 2024
Configuring MDM Integration with ISE
September 17, 2024
Configuring Single-SSID BYOD Policy with ISE (Internal CA)
September 17, 2024
Configuring Single-SSID BYOD Policy with ISE (External CA)
September 8, 2024
Old blog post: ISE 2.0 – Understanding Policy and Configuring Dot1x
September 8, 2024
Configuring an 802.1x Wired Policy using PEAP-MSCHAPv2 (No MAR)
September 8, 2024
Configuring an 802.1x Wired Policy using PEAP-EAP-TLS
September 6, 2024
Understanding Policy Logic in ISE
September 5, 2024
Airespace Wireless Controller Configuration for ISE
September 5, 2024
Catalyst 9800 WLC Configuration for ISE (FlexConnect)
September 5, 2024
Catalyst 9800 WLC Configuration for ISE (Non-FlexConnect)
September 4, 2024
Switch Configuration for ISE
September 3, 2024
Adding Network Access Devices (NADs) in ISE
September 3, 2024
Using Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Active Directory to Manage ISE
September 3, 2024
Patching and backing up ISE
September 3, 2024
Enabling AI Endpoint Analytics in ISE
September 3, 2024
Enabling and Configuring ISE Profiling Probes
September 3, 2024
pxGrid 2.0 in ISE
September 2, 2024
Enabling Services, Personas, and PassiveID on Identity Services Engine
September 2, 2024
Creating Certificate Authentication Profiles in ISE
September 1, 2024
Adding Certificates to ISE
September 1, 2024
Old Video: ISE Initial Configuration
September 1, 2024
Joining ISE to an Active Directory Domain
September 1, 2024
Getting your hands on Identity Services Engine and installing it
September 1, 2024
Old Video: Configuring the CA, DNS, Active Directory, GPO and DHCP
August 31, 2024
Windows Server – ISE’s PassiveID Configuration
August 31, 2024
Windows Server Group Policy Creation for PEAP MSCHAPv2
August 31, 2024
Windows Server Group Policy Creation for PEAP EAP-TLS
August 31, 2024
Configuring Certificate Templates with Active Directory Certificate Services
August 30, 2024
Installing Windows Server
August 30, 2024
Adding and Configuring Roles in Windows Server