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Password Encryption 101: Best Practices Guide for Orgs of All Sizes

SecureWorld News

Argon2 Argon2 is a password hashing function explicitly constructed to resist both brute-force attacks and pre-computed hash table attacks. This encompasses various factors, including the programming language, hardware requirements, and other technical considerations. Finally, implement a database disaster recovery plan.

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. N Apps that are inherently bound to hardware Such as physical instances of software for specific (e.g. high-performance) hardware, or physical instances remaining so for scale-out reasons.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

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). Servers/Hardware. Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall.

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Technology Short Take #35

Scott Lowe

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Servers/Hardware. More information on the use of the immutable server construct is also available here. Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules. The last point is key, since modern Enterprise Apps are typically constructed on multiple servers. Cloud Application Management. Security policies.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Car Hacking 0x05

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: The Chrysler Secure Gateway is a kind of firewall that doesn't allow everyone to send data to the car. And you know obviously every deaf construct. It has to be controlled by the vendor. And in order to access certain diagnostic functions. So we're really working hard to make sure that that happens.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Gentle Art of Lockpicking

ForAllSecure

Within infosec, where so many challenges that are intangible -- like configuring network or firewalls. At the next level you’ll want to introduce more tension, so you’ll want what are known as contractor grade locks bought at hardware stores that are designed to defeat high grade bumming attacks. Looks great.

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