It is often overlooked that a Firepower sensor is capable of very rich logging of a lot of interesting metrics. These can beside the normal SecOps use-cases also provide valuable insight into the health of…
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Setting up a quick ELK stack for use with Ciscos Firepower Threat Defense has never been easier. In this article I will showcase setting up a docker version of the ELK stack, together with the…
While for long time firewall has typically been something associated with large metal appliances sitting on the outskirts of an infrastructure. More and more are looking into virtualizing also this part of their infrastructure. The…
No Homelab is complete without a state-of-the-art Identity and Policy Engine. Of course there is an official install guide available here which is written for supported Environment ect., but there are always us, the odd few…
A lot of effort go into creating spec sheets and publish various numbers on what performance can be expected in order to help chose and size the right firewall model. This post tries to dive…
When working with lab environments it is often an issue obtaining the proper licenses for the devices. This usually yields a tendency of using evaluation licenses of a temporal nature. But what happens when your…
The Advanced Endpoint Protection (aka. Traps, aka. Cyvera) from Palo Alto Networks have added a seperate ‘Cryptolocker module’ to its range of detection methods. In this post I will go over this particular module. Setting…
The post contains a crude example on how to easily clone an existing site for use in a phishing campaign. It is based on rudimentary techniques as it is only meant as a proof-of-concept demonstration…
There are several ways of authenticating toward the management interface of a Palo Alto Networks Firewall (PANW). The authentications options boils down to three distinct ways namely (or mixes of the three): Local Username, Local…
A common use-case I encounter is the ability to dynamically update object lists referenced in policies at security perimeters (Firepower, FTD or others). This can come in one of two flavors: Security threat intelligence (aka…