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What Does It Take To Become a Computer Security Specialist

Galido

During this level of education, it centers on security procedures, information security, computer forensics, operating system security, encryption, and fundamentals of information security. Firewalls can be setup to prevent virus attacks and password protocols may be installed to control user access. What are the Earnings?

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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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #46

Scott Lowe

There’s no doubt Greg Ferro had to be involved somehow in this discussion; this rings of the “post-scarcity” discussions he and I had at IDF 2014 in September. Operating Systems/Applications. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Interesting thought. Want to install ESXi 5.5

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Technology Short Take #70

Scott Lowe

First, OHMS is open source (find it here on GitHub ); second, OHMS appears to interact with/integrate with/support Redfish, a hardware-level API I first discussed back in 2014. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m particularly encouraged by 2 things about OHMS. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage?

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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. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. A shell is simply an interface for the operating system.

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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. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. A shell is simply an interface for the operating system.

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Technology Short Take 145

Scott Lowe

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. Operating Systems/Applications. This is a quite old post (from 2014!), Networking. Thank you, Ben!