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A VULNERABILITY IN PALO ALTO PAN-OS COULD ALLOW FOR AUTHENTICATION BYPASS

A VULNERABILITY IN PALO ALTO PAN-OS COULD ALLOW FOR AUTHENTICATION BYPASS Summary: CVE-2020-2021 has been published regarding a vulnerability in PAN-OS that allows for authentication bypass. This issue is applicable only where SAML authentication is enabled and the ‘Validate Identity Provider Certificate’ option is disabled (unchecked) in the SAML Identity Provider Server Profile. This vulnerability […]

ATG Guardian: Alert

Recent RANSOMWARE threats against state and local government In response to the increase in ransomware attacks against state and local governments, please see this one-page document provided by govdelivery.com: three steps your department can take to protect your networks and data against adversaries. This document is provided courtesy of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency […]

ATG Guardian: Alert

PHISHING threat identified What happened? A malicious and successful email campaign is currently circulating and has affected users in our area. The email is generated by harvesting credentials to a user’s email account, then performing nefarious activities using these credentials. How was it identified? *The email contains fluent English language phrases that are consistent with […]

Brief synopsis about why we do it the way we do it!

Since 1995 I’ve connected a lot of computers to many networks.  In the early days the functionality was simple: share some files on a server, run an application so that many users could update data or print to a common, expensive printer. As the years passed and the functions evolved, organizations that once worked without […]