Category Archives: Netscaler

Doing it Cheap, and Right, with Kiwi Syslog Server, SQL and Netscaler Application Firewall

April 2, 2012 – 12:11 pm

Last week I noted an interesting blog from the guys at Splunk who have developed a way to parse and display Application Firewall blocks and place them into a nice dashboard. Splunk has been doing some interesting stuff here in the last 12 months or so that Citrix Administrators should take note of, especially if [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Advanced Persistent Threat, Application Firewall, Information Security, Layered Security, Netscaler Syslog, Netscaler VPX | Comments (3)

Project Poindexter:VPN Logs

June 16, 2010 – 6:33 am

Total Information Awareness with your Netscaler/AGEE Harvesting VPN Logs with the Netscaler: When I first heard about Total Information Awareness I was a little concerned. Like a lot of my current team, I am one of those libertarians who really isn’t keen on his personal life being correlated and analyzed and a program that is [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition, Citrix SQL Queries, Digital SCIF, Layered Security, Netscaler Syslog, Netscaler VPX, Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility, Security, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility, SSL VPN | Comments (2)

The Digital SCIF: Compartmentalizing Sensitive data with Access Gateway Enterprise Edition (SCIFNET)

January 3, 2010 – 6:30 pm

  A little over six months ago Citrix released the Netscaler VPX virtual appliance and I was immediately thrilled with the potential to create my own virtual lab using XenServer and internal Xen networks on the hypervisor for downstream hosts. What I noticed was that I could locate resources inside a hypervisor’s black network and [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition, Digital SCIF, Netscaler VPX, Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility, Security, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility, SSL VPN | Comments (1)

Xen and the art of Digital Epidemiology

November 27, 2009 – 3:32 pm

In 2003 I started steering my career toward Citrix/VMWare/Virtualization and at the time, aside from being laughed at for running this fledgling product called ESX Server 1.51, most of my environment was Windows based. There were plenty of shrink-wrapped tools to let me consolidate my events and the only Unix I had to worry about [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Application Firewall, Secure Ticket Authority, Security, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Electronic Stimulus

June 1, 2009 – 12:29 am

According to the Baltimore Sun, President Obama has promised to spend $50 billion dollars over the next five years coax hospitals, medical centers and the like to begin the process of offering electronic data.  So nurses, occupational therapist and other allied health personnel as well as Doctors may be carrying something like a Kindle around instead [...]

By John M. Smith | Also posted in Application Firewall, HIPPA, Security, Stimulus | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Netscaler VPX Beyond the Lab

May 26, 2009 – 12:57 am

By John M. Smith   Okay, so the Netscaler appliance has been virtualized, so now what? On May 18th of this year Citrix allowed anyone who wanted to get familiar with their Virtual Netscaler/AGEE to download a beta version of its Netscaler VPX appliance.  This appliance runs on the XenServer 5.0 hypervisor and is a [...]

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