FortiGate Securing Remote Administration
Feb05

FortiGate Securing Remote Administration

KB ID 0001734 Problem When considering Securing FortiGate  remote administration, I’ve written about changing the https management port to something other than TCP 443 before, I suppose that’s security by obfuscation (though even a script kiddy with one hours experience, will be able to spot an html responses).  Typically with other vendors you limit remote administration access, to specific IP addresses (or ranges). So...

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Cannot Manage ASA via AnyConnect VPN
Nov17

Cannot Manage ASA via AnyConnect VPN

KB ID 0000925  Problem I haven’t needed to use my AnyConnect for a long time. But this week I needed to spin up some test servers. I connected fine, but I could not access the ASA via telnet, SSH or ASDM. Solution 1. Traditionally all you needed to do to manage an ASA from a remote VPN session, was to set the management-access to inside. User Access Verification Password: Type help or ‘?’ for a list of available...

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