Archive for November, 2010:

Mitigating a DOS or DDOS attack on SIP – Part 2, Automation

on November 29th, 2010 by - Comments Off

After reviewing several good targeted blocking methods for “bad behavior”; meth0ds including fail2ban,  denyhosts,  block countries,  and others. I have determined the best approach for our customer sites is “Snort”, especially if you are already running pfSense! http://www.snort.org/ For users of pfSense, this is a simple install (System>Packages>snort, ADD). It is probably pretty clear to

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Multi-Generational Backup Methods

For regulatory reasons we have customers that need to keep applications working and available well after the application is no longer in use. We thank HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley for some of this time and cost wasting nonsense. Don’t get me wrong, but there are costs to mothballing applications and environments that have been mothballed. They

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