CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Proven methodologies developed years ago allowed us to reliably connect users, applications, and smart devices that propelled our organizations forward. However, new developments in how employees work, businesses operate, and applications are managed are necessitating sweeping, revolutionary change. And it worked.

Data Center 140

Data Center Network Applications Security 140

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

As investigations into the SolarWinds cyber incident continue, more information is becoming publicly available. CISA mentions that firewalls could have been used to neutralize the malware, limiting the impact of the breach. Senator Wyden questions CISA on SolarWinds.

Firewall 52

Firewall Malware Network Internet 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. This role requires the ability to build web and mobile applications with a focus on user experience, functionality, and usability.

Devops 143

Devops How To Engineering Systems Administration 143

CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

All the pieces needed to quickly install and run the application are included. With connections reaching nearly 24 billion ‘things’ by 2020, the resulting incremental information promises to shape new business models, drive business process efficiencies, and help reduce costs and risks.” About Software AG.

Internet 282

Internet Big Data Software Software 282

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. Operating Systems/Applications. See here for more details.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

Security 111

Security Budget Information Security Applications 111

CTOvision

APRIL 9, 2015

According to Tim Treat, Palo Alto Networks cyber security professional and speaker at the Insider Threat Summit: "The goal is to help transition organizations to a prevention focus, helping to build alliances between CIOs and CISOs to approach CFOs together explaining a way that makes prevention organic to their architecture and security strategy.".

Network 150

Network Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 150

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

Cloud architectures and remote workforces have effectively dissolved the network perimeter, the traditional line of defense for IT security. Endpoints encompass everything from employee laptops, desktops, and tablets to on-premises servers, containers, and applications running in the cloud. Those days are over. Here are five tips.

Strategy 80

Strategy Network Security Firewall 80

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. Operating Systems/Applications. See here for more details.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The Cloudera Federal Forum, now in its 4th year, has always been filled with lessons learned, best practices and informative glimpses into what is coming from the big data tech community. It’s time to unlock the knowledge in your enterprise information and deliver valuable agency insights, decision support, and results. Register here.

Fractional CTO 150

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Big Data 150

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. It’s time to unlock the knowledge in your enterprise information and deliver valuable agency insights, decision support, and results. Register here. 7:30 – 8:00 AM.

Program Management 150

Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Deneen DeFiore is a Hall of Fame technology executive who currently serves as vice president and chief information security officer at United Airlines, where she leads the cybersecurity and digital risk organization to ensure the company is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats. What are they?

Airlines 103

Airlines Meeting Policies Information Security 103

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

We have to think about security early in the innovation process and make sure our security best practices, governance and architectures are taken into account when we are designing our solutions—everything from defining what a container needs to look like when we deploy something to what sort of access controls we have.

CTO 52

CTO Retail Mobile Security 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

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. Intel is looking at Open vSwitch as a way to address that; more information on that later. Intra-VM communication.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

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. To ensure ongoing security site reliability engineers must work hand-in-hand with the CISO’s (Chief Information Security Officer) office to implement Kubernetes security.

Policies 68

Policies Linux Security Virtualization 68

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. The NIST and DHS have teamed up on some efforts to secure BGP; more information is available in this article. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Operating Systems/Applications.

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 According to this article , “It is hard to overstate what a sea change” this sort of architecture will create. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The certificate contains information such as the entity’s public key, name, and expiration date. When a client, such as a web browser, requests a resource from a server, such as a website, the request includes the domain name of the server and other information that identifies the resource being requested.

Security 41

Security Authentication Internet Resources 41

Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Yesterday I gave the keynote on The Future of Information Technology at the Local Government IT2011 conference in Coffs Harbour, which this year had the theme of mobility. They also use the term Collaboration Oriented Architecture , because this is all about enabling the collaboration that is essential for all organizations today.

Enterprise 121

Enterprise Enterprise Authentication Security 121

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

SDN wasn’t (and isn’t) about virtualizing network switches, routers, or firewalls; that’s NFV (Network Functions Virtualization). Courteous comments are always welcome (but do please add vendor affiliations where applicable)! In the meantime, feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments below. My apologies Matt!

Storage 116

Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 116

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Yes, the article is slightly OpenStack-centric, but it still remains a very informative look at the different components of OVN and how OVN works. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Operating Systems/Applications. Not sure what a bastion host is?

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 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. Operating Systems/Applications. This tool exports the DFW configuration and then converts it into Excel format, and is available on GitHub. What’s that? environments.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Kenneth Hui, formerly of VCE and now with Rackspace, does a great job of explaining how VMware vSphere fits into the OpenStack Nova architecture in this blog post. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

An IoT ( Internet of Things ) ecosystem refers to a network of interconnected devices, sensors, and software applications that work together to collect, analyze, and share data. Application layer:  This layer includes software applications and tools that enable users to interact with and make sense of the data generated by the system.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

An IoT ( Internet of Things ) ecosystem refers to a network of interconnected devices, sensors, and software applications that work together to collect, analyze, and share data. Application layer:  This layer includes software applications and tools that enable users to interact with and make sense of the data generated by the system.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

Summary: As technology evolves at breakneck speed, it brings new opportunities and challenges to web application development. If businesses want to create lasting, successful web applications, they must address these challenges. Let’s talk about web applications. Why are web applications so important right now?

Applications 52

Applications Development Web Developers Web Development 52

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. It’s a pretty detailed article with lots of useful information. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2023

Most applications built today leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), code that makes it possible for digital devices, applications, and servers to communicate and share data. Protiviti recommends integrating API security into an organization’s broader application security program.

Security 91

Security Authentication Applications Firewall 91

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), Ive been pointing out applications for this technology in Healthcare as well as in the Financial sector , and I thought it would also be useful to illustrate value in the Service Provider / Hosting market.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2024

There, I served as a QA analyst for firewalls, where my responsibilities included verifying the functionality of one of the first next-generation firewalls (NGFW), at the time referred to as a Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall. This model, initially known as R57, was later launched as the R60 NGFW.

Firewall 77

Firewall Sports Architecture Conference 77

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the ever-evolving realm of information security, the principle of Least Privilege stands out as the cornerstone of safeguarding sensitive data. However, this fundamental concept, emphasizing limited access to resources and information, has been progressively overlooked, placing our digital ecosystems at greater risk.

Backup 126

Backup Information Security Security Operating Systems 126

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2023

The event gave Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other security professionals the opportunity to share concerns and insights about today’s most pressing issues in cybersecurity and risk management. Firewall capabilities will be reconsidered. Last week, I attended the annual Gartner® Security and Risk Management Summit.

Trends 89

Trends Firewall WAN Network 89

ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.

Programming 52

Programming Software Software Research 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.

Programming 40

Programming Software Software Research 40

ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.

Programming 40

Programming Software Software Research 40