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Hello again! Some days ago I talked to a Sophos employee and he founds out that I am the Network Guy and he said that I need to update my recommended hardware for the home edition deployment of the Sophos XG and Sophos UTM Home Edition. Also some of my followers wanted it also, so … Read more
Migrating firewall systems between two different vendors can take a loooooooong time. In this case, I needed to migrate to a Sophos XG system. Most of the work is to reconfigure definitions like hosts-, network- and service-objects. There is a way, where you can import XML config files into the Sophos XG. We found this … Read more
In my opinion, ekahau Site Survey is the best survey utility for WLAN planing and onsite surveys. Of course, not everything is perfect but they are near to 100%. I’m working with ekahau since many years and have seen many changes. I can recommend this to everyone. Ekahau also offers a light product called “HeatMapper” … Read more
Good afternoon my fellows! There are many ways to configure quality of service (QoS) on a switch. First we need to classify what we want to be on a higher priority. You can classify an access-list, vendor-mac-addresses or just everything/any. In my case I wanted to prioritize a whole VLAN (ID 17 in my case). … Read more
Note WAF: TLS session tickets facilitate clients to speed up repeated TLS handshakes by re-using certain cipher parameters. This re-use of cipher parameters can cause encrypted connections to be less secure by impacting their perfect forward secrecy. To improve the overall security of the product, TLS session tickets are no longer enabled by the WAF. … Read more
First, thanks to all of my visitors and followers! As you can see, I didn’t had much time this year to post many tutorials and news. Besides I started an own company and this took a lot of time. My “New Year’s resolution” is to write more tutorials/posts and also get in more detail of WiFi … Read more
Good day everyone! If you want/have to implement wireless networks in companies you need to secure them more than your home WLAN. In this case, you need to use a radius server for this (so called WPA-Enterprise or WPA2-Enterprise Authentication with Protected EAP. I will use a Microsoft NPS (network policy server) on a Microsoft … Read more
Hello guys! Sometimes a /24 subnet is running out of free usable IP addresses and we need to extend the network. I want to show you how easy it is and what you have to keep in mind. First we need to plan our new network. The easiest way is to extend your current network, … Read more
What’s New in XG Firewall v17.5 Here’s a quick overview of the key new features in v17.5. For a more detailed description please refer to: Sophos-XG-firewall-v17.5-whats-new.pdf Lateral Movement Protection Lateral Movement Protection extends our Security Heartbeat automated threat isolation to prevent any threat from moving laterally or spreading across the network, even on the same … Read more
What’s new in UTM 9.6? ATP: New Advanced Threat Protection Library Better performance and protection Certificates: Let’s Encrypt Integration Generate and renew Let’s Encrypt certificates from within UTM Generated certificates can be used in all UTM components RED: Unified RED Firmware Better 3G/4G Support Sandstorm: Manual File Submission Allows an admin to upload a … Read more
