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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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Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network

CTOvision

The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). The argument is that today with the expansion of n-tier distributed systems and massively parallel architectures, east-west traffic has increased exponentially.

Network 150
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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

” The speaker is Edwin Verplanke, a System Architect with Intel. 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. Is the Linux bridge efficient enough?

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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. Vulnerabilities at the operating system level may be exploited by rogue container workloads if not hardened. Implement Pod Security Policy.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Have fun reading! Networking. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60
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What Are the Best Cybersecurity Certifications in 2023?

SecureWorld News

The course will revolve around real-world system architectures, the threats and exploits that could result in a data breach , and the defense mechanisms that could be employed to protect a network. With this knowledge, learners will then exploit a live system to identify the risks of web applications that lack the necessary security.

Course 60
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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. This looks really promising, IMHO—I’m excited to see it continue to develop.

Linux 60