Thoughts on the SSL/TLS – Beast

It seems like every day, there are some vulnerability or crack announced on the geek news-outlets. For some reason, the recent publication of an exploit of a flaw in the SSL/TLS implementation in some versions, made me extra curious and it made me think a little harder about this whole security business.
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IOS IPS

In this article i will try and setup a very simple example using Cisco IOS IPS (Intrusion Prevention System). As before, a simple topology consisting of 3 routers will suffice. They are configured as follows: Topology for IPS example. R1 will act as our source host.
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