Meraki is a pretty well known company, and has been a part of Cisco since 2012. There are a multitude of cloud based managed Wi-Fi solutions, but Meraki is one of the most prolific and has a variety of cloud managed products to suit most any size company’s needs. Several of their devices have similar setup steps, but today we will cover the initial out of the box setup of a Meraki MX64 security appliance that will have your MX appliance online and configured in your dashboard in no time.
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AIDE – File Integrity Monitoring
The idea of using file integrity monitoring to validate your operating system and applications has been around since the late ’90s, with programs like Tripwire. Today, we have a steady stream of companies offering their own version for FIM. However, one consistent and reliable open source solution for Linux is AIDE or the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment.
Continue reading AIDE – File Integrity MonitoringSniffing SSH Passwords
Is it possible to get someone’s password in plaintext over ssh? Yes! Surely, this makes no sense when the purpose of ssh is to prevent such a thing. Well, I’m speaking of monitoring the session directly from the server the user is connecting to and not across the network.
Continue reading Sniffing SSH PasswordsDisable null passwords
By default, the PAM configuration files in Linux allow for null or empty passwords due to the nullok feature. From the manpage,
# man pam_unix nullok The default action of this module is to not permit the user access to a service if their official password is blank. The nullok argument overrides this default.Continue reading Disable null passwords
Configuring snmpv3 in Linux
We have all used snmp for many years to help monitor our systems and networks but most admins have been reluctant to migrate to v3 due to the perceived increase in complexity. This post will show you how to quickly and easily enable snmpv3 on your linux system to take advantage of the additional security features to support authentication and privacy.
Install software packages
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