During the last weeks we saw lots of alert messages from Fortinet firewalls that blocked attack attempts against web servers using the built-in IPS system. There were so many of these messages that they completely flooded the monitoring system. So I was asked for a solution to filter out these messages The messages look similar […]
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In case, you want to use a public certificate on your Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Appliance (also known as ATP), you need to create a certificate file that includes all certificates from intermediate and the root certification authorities (CAs). In our case, the certificate itself looks as follows:
When setting up the VPN portal(s) for employees on a FortiGate, you can define bookmarks. A bookmark is an icon showing up on the VPN portal after the user has logged in. By clicking on such a bookmark, the user can then access internal resources like file servers or start a remote connection to a
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In the last weeks I was called by a customers, whose employees complained about SEP blocking them from using their printers in the home office. What seems to be a piece of cake, turned out to be a little more difficult, after looking for the details. The reason for the complexity is that many of
Hi guys, Today I want to write down, how to configure Fortinet WLAN access points with two ethernet interfaces to use both of them and aggregate them by 802.3ad (LACP). In my scenario I used a FortiAP 421E that supports 802.11ac Wave 2 with 1.733 Gbit/sec. This of course, cannot work, when the ethernet uplink is
Again, I had the chance to assist Veritas EMEA in updating (and extending) the official Backup Exec Best Practices Guide. The guide goes into detail on how to configure your backup server’s hardware and how you can tune Backup Exec to get the best performance. In addition you’ll find answers to some of the most
Today, Veritas released the new edition of Backup Exec, version 16. Well, you might say that’s no big deal, there’s a software release every other day from one of the major IT vendors. But nevertheless, this one is different.
On August 2nd, Veritas released Feature Pack 5 for Backup Exec introducing a new technology called “Instant Recovery”. This technology allows administrators to stand up a virtual machine directly from a backup taken with Backup Exec. There are quite a lot articles on the Web that describe that feature and its benefits from a technical
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On August 2nd 2016, Veritas released Feature Pack 5 for Backup Exec 15. So, what’s new here and is it worth the effort to upgrade? Support for New or Updated Platforms and Applications SQL 2016 SQL 2014 SP2 Exchange 2016 CU2 Exchange 2013 CU13 SharePoint CUs 2013, 2010 SharePoint 2013 with SQL 2016 instance Customizable
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Last week I was asked by a colleague, whether I’d heard of a problem backing up Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory domain controllers when the Backup Exec server was running an elder operating system. And yes, I know about this problem but wasn’t aware that I did not only forget to write about it here,