My Engineering Years: a personal post from the same era, not technical, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Recently, I enrolled in an Emergenetics Personality Profile Assessment workshop, with a company I have worked with. To explain Emergenetics, the best thing to do here would be to just let the Emergenetics team explain their company , and mindset themselves, instead of me trying to explain it. … [Read more...]
BlueCoat Proxy Splash Page For FireEye Integration
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Hello again. If you are here, you are probably looking for some HowTo help on FireEye Integration With BlueCoat Proxy, or perhaps you have already completed that and are looking for a good splash page to use for FireEye blocks. Either way, I thank you for stopping by, and hope to be of some assistance if possible. When I started working on the integration it was … [Read more...]
BlueCoat Proxy – Web URL Category Review / Best Practices
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. This page will attempt to assist you in building a Web URL Category review process, as well as provide best practice recommendations from BlueCoat and my own personal experience with BlueCoat. BlueCoat does not update their Web URL Categories very often, but it does happen about once every 12-18 months. In earlier times, they were not very helpful about this and … [Read more...]
Word To Enterprises… Update Your Security Kit Regularly
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Often times when I come to a company it is to bolster, revamp or help them re-evaluate their web security posture, with a focus on data exfiltration investigations and outbound web proxy is a great place to start. 90% of the time, when I finally gain access to the management console, I am greeted by an appalling SGOS 5.4 or 5.5 header across the top... This is sad because … [Read more...]
Web Proxy And The Need For SSL Decryption
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Most organizations will deploy a Web Proxy solution, but not intercept HTTPS traffic to do SSL decryption and inspection. This may be done for various reasons * Not yet having a PKI infrastructure to manage the SSL browser certificates * Perhaps the AD/GPO team doesn’t want to manage SSL certificate on the user PC * Security teams may be weary about man-in-the-middle … [Read more...]
BlueCoat Proxy – Log Injection For Rule Tracking
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Unfortunately BlueCoat doesn't have a nice and fancy log tracker type utility like CheckPoint has in Smart Tracker, so the rules do not have numbers. However, you can work around this by using some log injection smoke and mirror tricks. There are a few unused (or not very often used) log variables that can be used in conjunction with a specific action on a rule, that … [Read more...]
FireEye Integration With BlueCoat Proxy
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. This tutorial will assist you in setting up FireEye Integration With BlueCoat Proxy, by using a URL list populated by FireEye to use in the BlueCoat as another web filter. This filter can then be used in BlueCoat policy just like the BCWF, McAfee Smartfilter, etc... … [Read more...]
My Experience With SANS NetWars Tournament
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. I attended the SANS NetWars Tournament at the SANS Rocky Mountain Conference 2013 in Denver, while attending the SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling course taught by: James Lyne - Global Head of Security Research at Sophos Kevin Fiscus - Owner/Senior Consultant at Cyber Defense Advisors Both James and Kevin were fantastic instructors with … [Read more...]
Blue Coat ProxySG – Splash Page Updates
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. In my previous blathering’s about BlueCoat splash pages, I always had used the variable $(cs-categories) to identify which BlueCoat WebFilter (BCWF) the requested URL was a child of. But this displays ALL the categories that a specific URL/site is a member of, not just the one that is the criteria for the block. In your day to day administration and troubleshooting of … [Read more...]
Blue Coat ProxySG – Issues Upgrading SGOS From 5.5.x.x to 6.2.x.x
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Following an upgrade on a Blue Coat ProxySG 600-10, from 5.5.3.31 to 6.2.9.1, I encountered the errors below, and was unable to pass traffic thru the proxy using the BlueCoat WebFilter categories for "Allow"/"Deny". As this specific ProxySG is a non-production device, there are very minimal users working with it, and the first I noticed of the issue, was an email from … [Read more...]