Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

However, conventional solutions such as antivirus, firewalls, and other detection and blocking tools can only offer a limited level of security. Here, filtering, threat analysis, and sandboxing are performed on a public or private cloud server. Provides more security: Remote browser isolation in the cloud is very reliable.

Security 88

Security Malware Virtualization Network 88

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. ” Following that incident came news of “Azurescape,” billed as the first cross-account container takeover in the public cloud. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Galido

JUNE 30, 2016

VMI stands for Virtual Mobile Infrastructure and basically, it provides end users with a highly effective and an efficient way to have access to delicate mobile applications and information without much hassle. It creates virtual versions of mobile applications and sends them to a vast collection of devices.

Mobile 81

Mobile Virtualization Operating Systems Applications 81

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on cloud, OS, and programming topics, but there should be enough other interesting links to be useful to plenty of folks. (At Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Need to list assets across multiple cloud providers? Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. The business teams would also be evaluated for PCI security compliance yearly, but only for the requirements applicable to their product and scope.

Financial 94

Financial Architecture Resources Security 94

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

2] In this arena, desktop virtualization and cloud technologies will play starring roles. Understanding VDI As a virtual desktop solution, VDI enables remote workers to interact with an operating system and software the same way they would if working locally—on a network-delivered endpoint device.

Dell 57

Dell Intel Virtualization Cloud 57

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cormac Hogan shares some lessons learned using a Kubernetes Operator to query vSphere resources. Operating Systems/Applications. Matt Fuller has you covered.

Linux 60

Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Whether in-the-cloud or on-premise there is a shift to a model where individual applications need to protect themselves instead of relying on firewall-like techniques. That goes especially for the interaction between applications and storage engines, and between applications and databases. Contact Info.

Firewall 81

Firewall CTO Operating Systems Applications 81

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

The key takeaway here is that anytime there is firewalling or other stateful services in place, the traffic will route to the (non-distributed) service router instead of just the distributed routers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It prevents students from accessing the institute’s network for classes or retrieving educational material or work saved on the cloud. Similarly, organizations must also implement security controls for their data stored in the cloud. Update Systems Regularly. Install Anti-Malware Software. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

Education 78

Education Malware eBook Backup 78

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Dataconomy

JUNE 27, 2023

How to counter the most risky cloud computing threats? Vulnerability scanners can identify weaknesses in your systems and applications, allowing you to address them promptly through patches and updates. Common features include real-time scanning, web protection, email scanning, firewall capabilities, and ransomware protection.

Malware 68

Malware Software Software Financial 68

Dataconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These individuals use the same techniques as malicious hackers, but instead of using them for nefarious purposes, they use them to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in an organization’s systems, networks, and applications. They may steal sensitive data, disrupt systems, or engage in other illicit activities.

Network 45

Network Security Applications System 45

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. ” Following that incident came news of “Azurescape,” billed as the first cross-account container takeover in the public cloud. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 60

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

As organizations increase their use of Kubernetes in public and Hybrid cloud architectures, it is important not to let a maiden voyage end like a Titanic catastrophe. Vulnerabilities at the operating system level may be exploited by rogue container workloads if not hardened. Use The Right Installer.

Policies 68

Policies Linux Security Virtualization 68

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. Convergence also is happening in different formats; now security convergence is happening in appliances, virtual machines, cloud-delivered services, and containers. 

Firewall 88

Firewall Network WAN Security 88

Galido

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Hacker Combat provides a cloud-based Free Website Malware Scanner for scanning your websites and generating scan reports. Virusdie also helps to continuously scan your website for malware, website firewall to prevent XSS/SQLi/DDoS attacks, backup/restore, etc. Web application firewall. Wordfence charge you $179.

Malware 87

Malware How To Firewall Security 87

Galido

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Hackercombat aims to guide the user with this guide to inform what’s new in data loss prevention systems, including cloud access security brokers. A formidable challenge in DLP is to classify data by context; associating with the source application, data store, or the user who created the data. Having a DLP in place.

Strategy 92

Strategy Development Data Information Security 92

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. That’s cool.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This is a slightly older article by Casey West on the topic of “cloud-native.”

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves. They have two options.

Cloud 132

Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 132

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

In this article, we will delve deeper into the world of Virtual Network Computing, exploring its history, technology, and various applications. This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

Virtualization 36

Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Looking for a good list of virtualization and cloud podcasts? In vSphere 5.1,

Vmware 106

Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 106

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Another post by Tom Nolle explores the relationship—complicated at times—between SDN, NFV, and the cloud. App Firewall? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

HP 105

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 105

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. If you’ve deployed the vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX, there’s an option to enable Log Insight integration as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. In any case, have a look at this article by Julio Villareal Pelegrino on architecting an OpenStack cloud. No pun intended!)

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. As the website describes it, it’s designed to “reverse engineer” servers so that you can migrate them into a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet.

Storage 108

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108