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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

CCA prerequisites Large organizations usually govern their IT portfolio via global architectural patterns, which can be thought of as building blocks, and include IT security patterns. In practice, IT architectural patterns give architects the building blocks to design any IT solution.

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Google Cloud Sandbox Environments On Demand with Playground

Linux Academy

Just by having a paid account with Linux Academy, you and your organization can access not only our Google environments but all of Linux Academy’s Cloud Playground environments without ever having to open up a port or worrying about leaking information. Practice Different Architectures. Why can it take that long?

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DockerCon 2016 Vendor Meetings

Scott Lowe

I’d heard of Plumgrid, but wanted to take this time to better understand their architecture. As it turns out, their architecture is quite interesting. Using eBPF, Plumgrid has created in-kernel virtual network functions (VNFs) that do things like bridging, routing, network address translation (NAT), and firewalling.

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AWS Sandbox Environments On Demand with Playground

Linux Academy

” Approving AWS (and Azure, Google Cloud, or Linux) environments for your employees can pose a few problems: Administrative overhead of managing individual environments. Linux Academy manages all of the overhead associated with provisioning, securing, and tearing down the accounts. Practice Different Architectures.

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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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Top Ten Ways Not To Sink the Kubernetes Ship

Linux Academy

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. These policies, like any firewall, provide an invaluable means of limiting attack vectors both inside and outside the VPC.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. I knew Microsoft was cozying up to Linux, but I honestly didn’t expect they would port SQL Server to Linux.

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