Transparent Web Proxying with Cisco, Squid, and WCCP
This paper shows how to implement transparent web caching using a
Cisco router as a gateway and the Squid caching proxy server. The WCCP
protocol is used to register the proxy to the router to provide
seamless and scalable transparent proxying of web traffic.
Application Performance Monitoring with PasTmon
This paper shows how to measure and monitor the performance of
network applications through passive capturing of network traffic. The
PasTmon utility is excellent for identifying performance problems in
many network-based applications.
The Best Guides for Managing Information Security
A paper I wrote reviewing freely available guides for managing information security systems for the August
2007 issue of SysAdmin magazine. This article reviews the Open Source
Security Testing Methodology, various NIST Guides, ISO 17799, and the
Standard of Good Practice (SoGP) guides.
Backup Encryption
This paper shows how you can easily encrypt your Linux/Unix backups using
OpenSSL or GPG.
