Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For internal vulnerability scanning, you can set up an OpenVAS server running on Linux. There is no licensing cost for Linux or OpenVAS, which is a bonus. If you’re interested in learning more about vulnerability scanning, it’s covered in Linux Academy’s CompTIA Pentest+ course here.

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Linux Academy

MAY 31, 2019

Ansible can help automate the backup, and you can learn more in this month’s how-to video that covers using Ansible to back up a Cisco ASA firewall. Red Hat offers OpenSCAP , can be used to scan Linux hosts for compliance but doesn’t scan Windows hosts.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

Firewall rules : Attempt to access something your firewall should be blocking. Find more of our blogs in this series by searching “roadmap to security” in our blog or click here. The post Self-Audits | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure appeared first on Linux Academy Blog.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 26, 2019

The Linux Audit system is a great solution. Your security team can use the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) to encrypt and decrypt physical disks to keep data secure when not in use. OpenSCAP shows that a firewall is installed and running, that the Telnet protocol is disabled, and so on. Stay Compliant with Linux Academy.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 19, 2019

With engaging features like live AWS cloud sandboxes and servers, Interactive Diagrams, Hands-On Labs in live cloud environments, customizable flashcards, study groups, direct access to our expert Training Architects, downloadable Course videos, and more, Linux Academy is the #1 cloud training platform that helps you learn AWS by doing.

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Linux Academy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Hi, I’m Anna, COO of Linux Academy. Anthony is out on some much-needed vacation, but that’s not going to stop us from updating you on everything new in this Linux Academy Monthly Update. CompTIA Linux Plus XK0-004. Securing a Virtual Network with Azure Firewall . Using Ansible Firewalls Rules. Platform Updates.

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Linux Academy

MAY 22, 2019

Welcome to Linux Academy’s Cloud Playground! Used basic Linux commands on that server. The great thing about this in-browser terminal is that it bypasses restrictions that corporate firewalls typically have, so you can learn on the job without restriction. By the end of this guide, you will have: Started an Ubuntu server.

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Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

As many of you know, most firewalls today come with a default rule set permitting all outbound traffic to flow freely. You put the firewall in place, and traffic flows outbound unimpeded. The post May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure appeared first on Linux Academy Blog. They are priceless!

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” 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. ” Why? Playground Instant Terminal.

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

These controls could be firewalls, Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM) systems, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs), Network Access Control (NAC) systems, etc. This is because you have to audit technical controls and be able to understand things like firewall rules, Active Directory structure, file permissions, backups, etc.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

These policies, like any firewall, provide an invaluable means of limiting attack vectors both inside and outside the VPC. It is important to remember that just because an endpoint is behind a firewall doesn’t mean it is not a vulnerability. These suggestions and others are covered in Linux Academy’s Kubernetes Security Course.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Check out Mark Russinovich’s blog post on SONiC , then pop over to Kamala Subramaniam’s more in-depth SONiC post. 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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Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor - Information Technology Blog. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. The post Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor appeared first on Information Technology Blog. This network software is not only powerful but also easy to use.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This blog post discusses some of the new network security functionality available in vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) version 1.2; specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. That’s cool.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. NixOS seems to be an interesting re-think of a Linux distribution.

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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. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

I was sure I had mentioned Skydive before, but apparently not (a grep of all my blog posts found nothing), so let me rectify that first. 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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #79!

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s early yet (Falco is only at version 0.1.0), so keep that in mind— the blog post announcing Falco specifically calls out performance as something they’ll target in upcoming releases. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. here’s a blog post about the release.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

I saw two articles talking about his experience: one on redirecting NSX firewall logs into SmartLog and a second one ranting on how the NSX DFW isn’t quite enterprise ready. Alex Galbraith has been doing a fair amount of blogging on Amazon AWS, so he decided to put up an index page to Amazon AWS posts. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. The Solinea blog has a post on deploying Kubernetes with Ansible and Terraform that you might find useful/helpful. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

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. Albridge Solutions: Albridge Solutions migrated from UNIX servers to industry-standard servers running Linux and Egenera-based Infrastructure Orchestration. Newer Post.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Servers/Hardware.

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Galido

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2013 it was reported that 73% of WordPress blogs are vulnerable to attack, and that number is so large that it’s a safe bet that lots of blogs are vulnerable, still. All In One WP Security & Firewall. Once it’s installed, the plugin goes through all the security in your blog and grades it on a scale.

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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. x that involves booting on a Linux CD.

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Linux Academy

MAY 20, 2019

This is filtering provided at the network edge by a firewall with rules (ACLs) restricting what internal users are allowed to access. Some firewalls have the ability to filter by an application (layer 7 firewalls), but we’re going to concentrate on standard packet-filtering firewalls and their capabilities.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Sometimes I see blog posts that tout themselves as a “deep dive” but aren’t really that deep or detailed. We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. This Docker blog post has more details.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

So after elevating a previous to it, we could conduct a more extensive recon and on the Jupyter Notebook environment So after conducting more thorough recon on the Jupyter Notebook environment, we found out that the Jupyter Notebook had some local firewall rules restricting network access. One prevented them from access IMDS.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Jason Edelman is on a roll with a couple of great blog posts. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. App Firewall? Tom Fojta shows you how.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light on details, but the embedded video may be more informative (I didn’t watch it). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Networking.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 8, 2019

Maybe you have a SIEM, and you identify these attempts in a daily report and then address it by blocking the source IP address in your IPS or firewall. The post Using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure appeared first on Linux Academy Blog.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Jason Edelman is on a roll with a couple of great blog posts. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. App Firewall? Tom Fojta shows you how.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Linux distributions that offer ARM support, though—like Ubuntu, RHEL, and SuSE—are supported, however. I hope you find something useful. Networking. Is it just me?

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Linux Academy

APRIL 11, 2019

Think about all the controls we have in place on our networks today: firewalls, authentication systems, intrusion detection and prevention systems (network- and host-based), router and switch security, operating system security, data encryption — the list goes on and on. It’s in this domain that we lump the following: Firewalls.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. And it's on your Mac, and virtually any company that runs the Linux operating system. And while it’s not Windows, it can be added.

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