NTP attacks - threshold-based blocks?

Our campus has been getting a lot of NTP DDoS attacks of late.  While the simple solution would be to shut it down except for necessary systems, the problem (as per usual in public-sector) is that everyone seems to want to run something that uses it

Dynamic updates ERROR after updated 6.0.0. Why? HELP

HI

I updated yesterday software from 5.0.10 to 6.0.0

But after such an error occurred

Before that everything was normal

But after such an error occurred

many reboots, many check updates but the error is still

WHY  HOW TO FIX  HELP

DoS applictation attack to DNS server - how to prevent, and how to create report showing IP addressess with the highest number of session (not bytes) opened to it

From time to time I observe a lots of DNS queries (not UDP floods) from Internet to my DNS servers. Unfortunately those queries have negative inpact to my old firewall (it can't establish so many sessions, which makes the network stops).

Probably my D

PA acquires stealth mode startup Morta

"Morta Security is a stealth-mode start-up developing a new paradigm to counter advanced cyber threats. Traditional layered network defense is broken and Morta is poised to turn the tables on advanced attackers. Led by executives and engineers from t

Cisco VPN Client syslog to user-id agent

Hi,

We are trying to have Cisco ASA VPN server to send syslog message to kiwi syslog server.  The kiwi syslog server uses the vbscript to feed vpn username and vpn assigned ip address to user-id agents.  The cisco vpn client log-off message does not c

Benefits of using DNS Proxy?

Are there any Security benefits to using the current implementation of DNS proxy on the PAN? I have seen on the ver 6.0, a new feature called DNS sinkhole, but I don't think it will require the DNS proxy feature. Watchguard checks DNS headers and a c

Custom Report

Hi all

In user activity report there  Browsing Summary by Website and i need to use it in custom report instead of Full URL description as the report

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Problem with ssh decryption after SSH server upgrade

After upgrade ssh server to OpenSSH_6.4p1-hpn14v2, OpenSSL 1.0.0j 10 May 2012 I can't connect to this server when using ssh decryption on Palo Alto.

Before ssh server upgrade, decryption was working correctly and I could connect and decrypt ssh traffi

Custom APP-ID

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom APP-ID for nearmaps.com. However, cannot get the monitoring to identify the traffic. Following is how I created the APP-ID,

captured the header information from HTTPFox on Firefox. Refer attached screenshot

Im not sure

Monitor session end reason

Hello,

How to check what was the reason behind session end? I mean it could be RST, FIN or timeout from firewall.

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ifpilm