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Hardening the Cisco TelePresence DX Systems
The Cisco TelePresence Hardening Guide has been updated, adding the DX70, DX80, and DX650 models. The Cisco DX Series run the Google Android operating system, which has special considerations for security. The updates cover security areas related to: Access to the Google Play store and 3rd party ap…
New Security White Paper: Unified Computing System (UCS) Hardening Guide
Check out the new Cisco UCS Hardening Guide white paper which is now released and available on the Cisco Security Portal. The paper outlines and highlights security best practices for Cisco UCS. This paper provides information to help users secure Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform…
SNMP: Spike in Brute-force Attempts Recently Observed
Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) has been widely deployed as an important network management tool for decades, is a key component of scalable network device management, and is configurable in nearly all network infrastructure devices sold today. As with any management protocol, if not confi…
Windows Server DNS Cache: How to Use the Command Line Inspection of Microsoft Windows DNS Cache
This post explains how to inspect the contents of windows DNS cache. Inspection can be used to check DNS entries, revealing if any malicious websites are being visited. A Domain Name Server’s (DNS) cache of DNS records can be inspected to determine if your network is interacting with suspiciou…