April 2020 – Karstens Cyber-Fi Blog

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Cisco Firepower 6.6 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

On 2020-04-152022-03-24 By Karsten

Cisco recently released version 6.6 of the Firepower Thread Defense (FTD) software. Time to write about three features that are worth mentioning: The Good: When running in local management mode (FDM), Firepower Thread Defense now supports PPPoE. Given that the local management is mainly for smaller organisations and these often

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A look into Multi-Preshared Keys

On 2020-04-082024-09-15 By Karsten

When implementing security on a wireless LAN, 802.1X/EAP is the way to go for maximum security. But as this is not always possible, we often need to make sure that WLANs with Preshared-Keys are implemented as secure as possible. The PSK has to be very strong, that is common knowledge.