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Vulnerability Scanning – Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

For internal vulnerability scanning, you can set up an OpenVAS server running on Linux. There is no licensing cost for Linux or OpenVAS, which is a bonus. If you’re interested in learning more about vulnerability scanning, it’s covered in Linux Academy’s CompTIA Pentest+ course here.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. Paessler PRTG Network Monitor’s licensing is based on sensors. For more information and to download the trial versions for 30 days or for the Freeware license you can access the official site: [link]. Windows and WMI performance counters. Flow and Packet analyzer. HTTP requests.

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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux).

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Technology Short Take #53

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Networking.

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

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. By the late 1970s, however, AT&T began to license Unix to outside parties and universities. But it’s actually from Eric S.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. By the late 1970s, however, AT&T began to license Unix to outside parties and universities. But it’s actually from Eric S.