Strongswan IPSec (Including Cryptomap) to Microsoft Azure Virtual Network Gateway
We recently had to get a VPS Ubuntu server communicating through a Virtual Network Gateway (read IPSec concentrator) on Azure. We followed the documentation and…
How to Block Internet Access with Group Policy (GPO)
This how to will show you how to block internet access for a user, users or computer within an Active Directory Group Policy Object. I’ve…
Enforcing Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Tennancy with McAfee Web Gateway (MWG)
McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) is a pretty phenominal product, if you’re looking for a commercial web filtering solution then MWG should certainly be something you…
Steam & Valve IP Ranges
After spending a fair amount of time trying to find the IP subnets which Steam uses I came up a blank, so I went to…
Easy(ish) IPSec VPN with Shared ECDSA Certificates for Host to Host Connections
Let me start off by saying that using certificates for your IPSec VPNs adds another layer of complexity onto your connections. However what I’ve tried…
Configuring Suite B, VPN-A and VPN-B in IPSec with Strongswan
Many vendors have got the various IPSec standards already implemented within their products for ease of use. This is my configuration for matching these standards…
How to Create a Site to Host VPN on Ubuntu for AWS, Azure and Linode with pfsense
This tutorial will guide you through setting up a VPN from your pfsense firewall router, to your Ubuntu server hosted in the cloud. Many of…
How to Create a Websense Content Gateway (WCG) on CentOS
When you implement a Websense proxy solution and you don’t guy one of their appliance then you have to setup the proxy components yourself. This…
IPSec VPN Host to Host on Windows 2012 R2 and Ubuntu 14.04
After one of my recent tutorials about a host to host Linux VPN this post is a how to create a host to host VPN…
Securing WordPress from Brute Force Attacks by Country Blocking on Nginx
After having looked after a number of WordPress websites over the last 7 years or so it has become apparent that the number of brute…