Archive for December, 2008
December 31st, 2008 by Bojana Stucin
This year NIL made a new step with entering the world of blogs, wikis and forums. On the June 11th 2008, the first blog post from Klemen Štular, the NIL general manager was published.
Since then there were:
- 85 blog posts
- from 12 authors
The top 5 read blogs are:
Catching the ...
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December 24th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak
Brain dumps are the biggest threat to the certification industry these days, significantly devaluing certifications that rely primarily on multiple-choice answers. Similarly to the threat-prevention measures adopted by airport security (read the insightful analysis of their behavior from Bruce Schneier, a renowned security guru), IT vendors are responding with high-tech ...
Posted in Certification, Training | 5 Comments »
December 22nd, 2008 by Grega Modrijan
As part of NIL’s customer support division, my colleagues and I face customers’ networking problems daily. Trying to solve these problems quickly and efficiently – and get the maximum benefit out of available resources (time, engineers, etc.) – requires us to stay open to new techniques and tools that might ...
Posted in IPsec, Technical | 1 Comment »
December 19th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak
Numerous companies use certifications to screen job candidates. Even if all the caveats associated with this process are given, you might encounter candidates who have multiple high-level certifications but cannot differentiate a router from a box of cheese. How can you identify (and reject) such people?
Posted in Certification, Training | 1 Comment »
December 16th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak
My previous certification-related post described how some companies use certifications to filter job applicants for networking-related positions. Should you follow that example? If you're in a country with a saturated job market, where the number of applicants far exceeds the number of job postings (consider yourself very lucky if you're ...
Posted in Certification, Training | 3 Comments »
December 15th, 2008 by Bojana Stucin
Do you feel confident enough to upgrade your foundation knowledge about network security, design concepts and user-level operating system concepts?
Best practices for designing the security countermeasures for hosts as well as for networks can be achieved by SSSE 3.0 course and labs!
NIL is currently the only partner providing training and ...
Posted in New Products and Services, Security | No Comments »
December 11th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak
If you have been visited by a friendly Cisco sales engineer recently, you might have already heard about the ACE Web Application Firewall (WAF). If you're curious enough to start investigating on your own, you might have stumbled across the WAF product description on Cisco's Web site, which tells you ...
Posted in HTTP, IDS, Technical, WAF, firewall | No Comments »
December 10th, 2008 by Andraz Piletic
It had been months since the NIL Monitor group first noticed that a customer’s remote location was experiencing suspiciously high traffic every night. The traffic started every day at around 8 p.m. and stopped twelve hours later, at 8 a.m. Due to high traffic in both inbound and outbound directions, ...
Posted in Technical | 3 Comments »
December 8th, 2008 by Bojana Stucin
With new year rapidly approaching, it's time for gifts. Take advantage of the limited-time opportunity for buying any NIL e-learning products with 30% discount.
Save gas. Save time. Save MONEY! Make the next step towards your certification at a lower price.
Posted in E-Course, Promotions & Special Offers, Remote Lab Exercises, Training | No Comments »
December 5th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak
Based on the title, I would assume that the Cisco Press book Voice over IP Security: Security best practices derived from deep analysis of the latest VoIP network threats attracts primarily senior voice engineers who know that they have to secure their production networks. The author of the book strongly ...
Posted in Book reviews, Security, VoIP, Voice | No Comments »
