Which Next Generation Firewall to choose – Report

Often, during meetings with clients, network engineers and security specialist there is following question posed: “What firewall product best suits their environment and which one is the best currently on the market?” Like almost always the answer could be “Well, it depends” …

Protect the Control Plane – part 2, CoPP.

After we prove the CPU utilization can be easily increased by anyone anytime (as shown in the previous blog post, “Protect the Control Plane – part 1, trivial attack.”), I feel obliged to show how to quickly prevent the cause of potential network and services damage.

Control Plane Protection – part 1, trivial attack.

How many of you use the control plane protection features given by vendor with the benefit of inventory? From what I see mostly, it is a very rare practice to use CoPP. Most of network people haven’t even heard of it. “Because my network performs well, why should I care about control plane protection?” I […]