Tag: security

Palo Alto Private Data Reset with HA (Active/Passive)

Sometimes, you need to do a quick factory reset on a Palo Alto Networks firewall. If you aren’t decommissioning the firewall, a Private Data Reset can be a faster way to accomplish similar results as a factory reset and can be done via CLI directly and could technically be done remotely with some coordination. In…

Securing GlobalProtect

Out of the box, you can’t just add a Security Profile to the interface that runs GlobalProtect fortunately there’s a relatively easy way to do it with minimal impact to your existing GlobalProtect setup. In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to secure GlobalProtect by adding protection with a Vulnerability Protection Profile or…

PGP

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) has been around for a long time. PGP is a system that allows you to encrypt a message using a key pair. A key pair consists of a public key and a private key. The public and private key pair are created at the same time and are permanently linked; one…

Online Passwords

Recently some major password database leaks have been making headlines all over the internet. Last.fm the social music website, LinkedIn a professional social networking website, and eHarmony a well known dating website have all been victims of a recent cyber-crime spree of database break-ins. LinkedIn in particular is reporting that more than 8 million passwords may have been compromised.