McAfee Enterprise Firewall Virtual Appliance for Free.

McAfee offers a 30 day free evaluation copy of their Enterprise firewall as a virtual appliance. If you are considering replacement from traditional firewalls to Next Generation firewalls you should check it out.

reference.

http://go.mcafee.com/firewallvirtual_eval.cfm

Juniper knowledge base search plugin for Firefox

Juniper has a plugin for Firefox that can be used for easy search of their knowledge base articles.

Go to http://kb.juniper.net and click on ‘Install Search Engine PlugIn’

Application Control Next Generation Firewalls

Checkpoint introduced Application control policies in their R75 version recently, while traditional firewalls like ASA and SRX perform control based on protocols, ports and IP, the new next generation firewalls in addition provides granular control by application and users using these applications.

The only other vendor doing this in the security space is a new company called Paloalto networks which appears to have initiated this concept for good.

The checkpoint App wiki is a great resource to see what application controls are possible.

http://appwiki.checkpoint.com/appwikisdb/public.htm

Cisco IPS command to reset and restore signature policy to default.

Run the following Cisco IPS command to restore signature policy to default values