Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These open source products deliver simple routing and networking features, like DHCP and DNS. These products can be downloaded and deployed on your own hardware, on a virtual platform, or in the cloud.

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Open Source Firewall SMB Hardware 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Image Credit: Brian Klug Every CIO realizes that a key part of their job is to find ways to keep the bad guys out of the company’s networks. However, I think that we all have to agree that despite our best efforts there is always the possibility that the bad guys may find a way to get into our networks.

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Firewall Network Security Study 130

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. These candidates should have experience debugging cloud stacks, securing apps in the cloud, and creating cloud-based solutions.

Devops 143

Devops How To Engineering Systems Administration 143

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment.

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Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). What is SASE?

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WAN Network Security Cloud 133

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. Its design provides for fast, efficient movement of data on the network while ensuring security and data integrity. Its design provides for fast, efficient movement of data on the network while ensuring security and data integrity.

WAN 111

WAN Financial Agile Firewall 111

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor - Information Technology Blog. PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler AG is a powerful network monitoring solution. This network software is not only powerful but also easy to use. Problems in the network cause emergencies in business.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. Companies can’t ignore digital transformation as technology continues to dominate nearly every aspect of business and daily-life.

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Engineering Devops Architecture Software 116

Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

With networks and infrastructures extending beyond the safe school walls nowadays, cyber-attack threats against educational institutions are on the rise. A denial-of-service attack attempts to overwhelm or shut down a network, rendering it unusable to legitimate users. There is a heightened focus on remote learning and online classes.

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Education Malware eBook Backup 78

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This week, the company made a significant announcement about the 5G network it is rolling out, and that announcement focused on security. Verizon tries to stand out on 5G network cybersecurity. The company rolled out a new whitepaper on its 5G network security and how the company claims to be a standout in the space.

Network 52

Network Security Firewall Engineering 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” 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.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2022

That is, our primary security controls of firewalls, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, and wired network security are no longer the primary method to manage technology in a COE. Organizations must adapt their security controls to home networks and even public WiFi. So how does this affect the COE?

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Authentication Resources Security Cloud 74

SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2022

Many software and hardware products come "out of the box" with overly permissive factory default configurations intended to make the products user-friendly and reduce the troubleshooting time for customer service. Network devices are also often preconfigured with default administrator usernames and passwords to simplify setup.

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SMB Network Software Software 69

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things have obliterated the traditional perimeter that protected organizations. Cloud mobility and the internet things have really obliterated what I've always referred to as the wall and moat security paradigm, where working inside the enterprise was safe but working outside of the company's walls wasn't.

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Information Security Firewall Intel Mobile 112

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Networking. This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Heidi Howard and Ittai Abraham illustrate some of the challenges of the Raft consensus protocol when there is a network partition.

Linux 60

Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

However, conventional solutions such as antivirus, firewalls, and other detection and blocking tools can only offer a limited level of security. Here, filtering, threat analysis, and sandboxing are performed on a public or private cloud server. Provides more security: Remote browser isolation in the cloud is very reliable.

Security 84

Security Malware Virtualization Network 84

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

Incident response in the cloud. James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. And other hardware. On a computer system or network.

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Cloud Government Data Security 40

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity. Cloud services offer another avenue for cost-effective cybersecurity solutions since providers often include security measures in their service offerings.

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Nonprofit Strategy Budget Backup 87

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 Networking. Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network).

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

CTOvision

JUNE 5, 2015

In these centers, the enterprise’s information and other sensitive areas like websites, databases, servers, networks etc are monitored, assessed and defended. Some of the objectives could be to detect attacks from the Internet, maintain a vulnerability review, monitor the network, etc. Communications management. Reporting problems.

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Security Intel Network Analysis 150

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

2] In this arena, desktop virtualization and cloud technologies will play starring roles. Understanding VDI As a virtual desktop solution, VDI enables remote workers to interact with an operating system and software the same way they would if working locally—on a network-delivered endpoint device.

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Dell Intel Virtualization Cloud 59

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

Networking. The key takeaway here is that anytime there is firewalling or other stateful services in place, the traffic will route to the (non-distributed) service router instead of just the distributed routers. Northbound Networks provides some information on the P4 programming language. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Networking. This is a slightly older post providing an overview of container networking , but still quite relevant. Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Servers/Hardware. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This includes monitoring network traffic, logs, and endpoints for suspicious activity, as well as implementing intrusion detection and prevention systems. An MSSP collects and analyzes security-related data from various sources, including network logs, endpoint logs, and other security tools.

Security 74

Security Information Security Data System 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. The WD Sentinel DX4000 looks pretty awesome from a hardware perspective as well.

Storage 48

Storage Network SMB Windows 48

Dataconomy

JUNE 27, 2023

Protecting against external threats Cyber hygiene acts as a shield against external threats that aim to compromise the security of your devices and networks. How to counter the most risky cloud computing threats? Cybercriminals can exploit vulnerabilities in systems and networks, gaining unauthorized access to sensitive information.

Malware 68

Malware Software Software Financial 68

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It is important to implement robust data security measures, including encryption, firewalls, and secure storage. Consider both software and hardware solutions that align with your institution’s needs and budget. Further, the sector must categorize K12 educational data based on sensitivity and usage and then make decisions.

Strategy 88

Strategy Data Education eBook 88

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Networking. This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Matt also recently posted part 4 (of 5) in his series on SDN protocols; this post covers OpFlex and declarative networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Networking. First, we have this post on HiCube, which covers MACVLAN vs. Next, we have a pair of articles by Sreenivas Makam; the first covers MACVLAN and IPVLAN basics , while the second tackles the Docker MACVLAN and IPVLAN network plugins. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. 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. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60