CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. All other needs, for example, authentication, encryption, log management, system configuration, would be treated the same—by using the architectural patterns available.

Financial 105

Financial Architecture Resources Security 105

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Christian Kellner provides a brief reminder that not all USB-C ports are Thunderbolt ports, and updates everyone on the status of bolt (Linux utility for working with Thunderbolt ports and peripherals). J Metz has launched his own, storage-focused “Short Takes” series; the first of these is found here. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Colleague and teammate Eric Shanks takes readers through what’s necessary to do Active Directory authentication for Kubernetes clusters. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux. That’s cool. Servers/Hardware. Don’t ask.).

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Bruce Schneier writes about how some Chinese hackers are bypassing RSA software token authentication (the title is a bit more broad, implying other forms of two-factor authentication are affected, but the article focuses on attacks against the use of RSA software tokens). Michael Gasch shares his tmux setup. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. This will become even more useful, in my opinion, when Linux support is added. Virtualization.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. I came across this post on CloudFoundry’s User Account and Authentication Service (the UAA). Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product?

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

A few months ago, I stumbled across a service called ODrive (“Oh” Drive) that allows you to combine multiple cloud storage services together. Since that time, I’ve been experimenting with ODrive, testing it to see how well it works, if at all, with my Fedora Linux environment.

Linux 60

Linux Storage Cloud Examples 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Lee Briggs covers the plethora of ways to authenticate to AWS. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165!

Policies 96

Policies Programming Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016. Servers/Hardware.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Let’s start with passing some JSON data to a REST API to authenticate. Example 1: Authenticating to OpenStack. Let’s say you’re working with an OpenStack-based cloud, and you need to authenticate to OpenStack using OpenStack Identity (“Keystone”). Example 2: Authenticating to VMware NSX.

Authentication 93

Authentication Vmware Examples Applications 93

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Part 1 covers auto-unsealing Vault ; part 2 covers authenticating to Vault using instance metadata ; and part 3 discusses authenticating to Vault using an IAM user or role. Go check out part 2. Paul Fitzgerald shows how to use Hyper-V and Docker to build a VyOS 1.2.0

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

If you’re unfamiliar with public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, or encryption, you may find this Linux Journal article helpful. Lennart Koopmann provides a guide to Yubikey authentication in the real world. That’s good—the butterfly keyboards are awful (in my opinion). It provides the basics behind X.509v3

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

SPF13

MARCH 14, 2012

Installing on linux. To download and extract the files, on a typical Unix/Linux command line, use. host => localhost, // Connection name/alias. // Omit USER:PASS@ if Mongo isnt configured to use authentication. Installing MongoDB. These are the very brief instructions and make some assumptions. Installing on windows.

Linux 256

Linux Google Authentication Storage 256

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. With regard to block storage via Cinder, Intel has incorporated support to filter volumes based on availability zone, capabilities, capacity, and other features so that volumes are allocated more intelligently based on workload and type of service required.

Intel 60

Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016. Servers/Hardware.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 9, 2014

Docker Hub will offer a registry for a comprehensive list of “Dockerized” applications (taking the place of the Docker Index, I assume), along with a management console, user authentication, an automated build service, the Docker Hub API, and collaboration tools to help users manage and share applications. Docker Making Its Move.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Linux Applications Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Cloud Policies 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices. This topic is the subject of some debate given that some claim OVS internal ports perform much better than Linux veth devices. Eric Gray has a nice write-up on using Lightwave for authentication with Photon. Get all the details here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2013

I’m assuming that you’ve already gone through the process of getting KVM installed on your Linux host; if you need help with that, a quick Google search should turn up plenty of “how to” articles (it’s basically a sudo apt-get install kvm operation). Next, you need to authenticate the hypervisor to NVP.

Transportation 60

Transportation Linux Network Virtualization 60

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You will be able to create routes that map to multiple disparate backends, define & apply authentication and authorization to routes, set up rate limiting, and use custom domains to route requests to the APIs. You can now easily use Integrated Windows Authentication with your Windows containers on ECS to secure services.

Windows 12

Windows Authentication Meeting Resources 12

Kitaboo

MARCH 18, 2024

Below are the top nine features of the top eBook creation software that can significantly enhance your eBook creation process: Cloud-Based Storage and Access Look for the best eBook creation software that comes with cloud-based storage and access capabilities. Let’s dive in! Table of Contents: I.

eBook 78

eBook Software Software Storage 78

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it. Storage This is a good (albeit slightly dated) overview of EBS volume types.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

It’s available across iOS and Android; it has native desktop applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux; and it also integrates with every major browser including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. You also have the option of protecting your Bitwarden account with two-factor authentication to provide an extra layer of security.

Security 107

Security Authentication Mobile Windows 107

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

This service holds metadata about the currently running virtual machine instance, such as storage, network configuration and more. Vamosi: IPTables is a way to configure the IP packet filter rules of the Linux kernel firewall. So before they elevated their privileges they couldn’t see iIMDS. Why might that be the case?

Firewall 52

Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Mike Foley recently published a two-part series on two factor authentication (2FA) for vSphere ( part 1 is here ; part 2 is here ). This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Ubuntu 16.04

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This November at Linux Academy, we have loads of new content coming your way! To all of our learners who may know someone who wants to learn more about the cloud or Linux, but they have been on the fence about signing up for a free community edition account, then tell them that right now is a great time for them to sign up!

Linux 16

Linux Systems Administration Google Cloud 16

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And if you could initiate a heartbeat before authentication was complete on the site, you could smash and grab the encrypted information before anyone even knew who you were. And then there are, for example, dedicated Linux distributions which server like on collections of tools ready to be used. Kaksonen: Please do not.

Open Source 52

Open Source Tools Security Software 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And if you could initiate a heartbeat before authentication was complete on the site, you could smash and grab the encrypted information before anyone even knew who you were. And then there are, for example, dedicated Linux distributions which server like on collections of tools ready to be used. Kaksonen: Please do not.

Open Source 52

Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Dataconomy

MAY 24, 2023

The platform offers versatile applications, including the verification of credentials like diplomas, establishing authentic origins to combat the online trade of counterfeit luxury goods, and supporting stakeholders throughout the entire food production chain, spanning from farmers to retailers.

Network 59

Network IBM Open Source Applications 59

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And if you could initiate a heartbeat before authentication was complete on the site, you could smash and grab the encrypted information before anyone even knew who you were. And then there are, for example, dedicated Linux distributions which server like on collections of tools ready to be used. Kaksonen: Please do not.

Open Source 52

Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 20, 2014

The fleetctl doesn’t expose any options to configure the SSH connection, and it assumes you’ll be using public key authentication. OS X provides an SSH agent by default, but on Linux systems you will probably have to manually run an SSH agent and add the appropriate SSH key: eval `ssh-agent -s` ssh-add ~/.ssh/keyfile.pem.

Linux 61

Linux System Load Balancer Examples 61