I recently encountered a problem where I had a Citrix NetScaler that, for security reasons, had no internet connection. It was located in the second DMZ and was intended to act as a second-hop server. A relatively large number of load balancers had been set up, along with the corresponding WAFs. A Citrix Knowledge Base article explains exactly how to configure NetScaler itself so that it loads...
WordPress is one of the most popular web publishing software, both in the private and commercial sectors. While the private sector will hardly use a Citrix NetScaler ADC, not to mention, Citrix Firewall, it is rather common in the commercial world. This page will focus on a simple, robust deployment. It requires advanced (enterprise) or premium (platinum) editions of Citrix NetScaler ADC. It’s...
last update: February 21st 2022 Recently, I had been asked, how to protect a gateway from threads. It’s easy, I thought, Citrix ADC has everything needed in good quality: A Bot Management, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and AppQoE (Application quality of experience, a DOS protection feature). So nothing easier than that: Create the policies desired and bind them to the gateway. Shortly...
This is an old problem with Citrix ADC / NetScaler: You should test all changes in test-site first and move them to production, or synchronise production site and disaster recovery site. Unfortunately, there is no built-in mechanism to synchronize configuration. So, over time, these sites will start differing, a very unwelcome state. This is especially true for WAF, as applications tend to change...