Author: Ronan

I'm a Citrix systems engineer specialising in Citrix Networking, Security & App Delivery products. I've been working with Citrix ADC, WAF, WAN Optimisation and SD-WAN since 2006 through a variety of roles in Citrix, from Support through to Instructor. I never stop learning, as Citrix evolves with how we work, and life in general, and the technology evolves with us. LinkedIn profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obrienronan/

Citrix ADC – Create your own AAA session management framework using AppExpert

by Ronan, posted in Citrix ADC, Identity

Citrix ADC has had a feature called AAA (authentication, authorization, and accounting) for many years now. It's purpose is the secure load balanced websites. Providing load balancing for webservers ( think IIS for on-prem sharepoint, outlook web access, or internally built web apps, think apache web servers, nginx, etc for larger cloud hosted or other … Continue reading Citrix ADC – Create your own AAA session management framework using AppExpert

Citrix ADC is restricted by not having scripting functionality? WRONG!

by Ronan, posted in Citrix ADC

I had a customer tell me recently that their existing ADC could not be replaced with Citrix ADC, as there were complex custom rules for which the Citrix ADC couldn't match. In my mind I heard the words "Challenge Accepted". 🙂 The use case was to serve back a bespoke error page when a load … Continue reading Citrix ADC is restricted by not having scripting functionality? WRONG!

Hackers love your vulnerable websites!

by Ronan, posted in Citrix ADC

There is a saying or clichĂ© commonly shared among technical security teams: it’s not a case of IF you’ll get attacked, its WHEN. I decided to test this theory with what’s called a “honeypot”. This is a program, site or piece of code deployed with the deliberate intention of it being hit by the bad … Continue reading Hackers love your vulnerable websites!