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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). However, to use CAC with an Apple iPhone, you need to buy a sled – an iPhone case with integrated card reader.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO Business Intelligence

But despite those expenditures, there have already been at least 13 major data breaches, including at Apple, Meta and Twitter. For example, he says, web application firewalls don’t only protect applications but cut networking costs by reducing spurious and malicious traffic. to reach more than $188.3 billion this year.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

Ukrainian mobile operator Ukrtelecom kept running the network for almost a year after the annexation in parts of Crimea, until armed guards surrounded the company's offices and blocked employees from entering, according to TeleGeography, a consulting firm. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Networking. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Good advice.

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Technology Short Take #68

Scott Lowe

Networking. First, we have this post on HiCube, which covers MACVLAN vs. Next, we have a pair of articles by Sreenivas Makam; the first covers MACVLAN and IPVLAN basics , while the second tackles the Docker MACVLAN and IPVLAN network plugins. As always, I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to you. Virtualization.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network. Today, the service provider houses over 1,425 virtual servers running on 70 industrystandard Egenera servers, 370 terabytes of storage and 1,250 virtualized firewalls.