This article cover some good things to know when it comes to configuring a Cisco ASA remote-access VPN that uses SAML-authentication to identify and authenticate users. SAML-authentication is something most network administrators rarely run into but in this single sign-on era you can except to see more of it and sometimes it’s not obvious what parameter needs to go where.
While spending some time setting up a new VPN-access running on a Cisco ASA firewall that uses a Smartphone App Push-notice for two-factor authentication, I ran into a number of issues related to timeouts in the chain of events that I think might be useful for others to know about.
Microsoft is making it harder and harder to run Cisco’s software collection AnyConnect without resorting to weird workarounds and in this article we take a look at my latest beef with Microsoft and in particular their newer versions of Windows 10.
In this article, we take a look at the open-source OpenConnect VPN client software and test it out in some different VPN-configurations, mainly connecting to different Cisco firewalls, and doing some light comparisons to how it stacks up against Cisco’s AnyConnect VPN software.