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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
However, it has also introduced new security challenges, specifically related to cloud infrastructure and connectivity between workloads as organizations have limited control over those connectivity and communications. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year. 8 Complexity. 8 Complexity.
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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT
CTOvision
JUNE 7, 2014
We’re seeing a glimmer of the future – the Internet of Things (IoT) – where anything and everything is or contains a sensor that can communicate over the network/Internet. Your running shoe tracks your workouts, sending the data to a mobile app. You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution.
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DockerCon 2017 Black Belt Session: Cilium for Network and Application Security
Scott Lowe
APRIL 17, 2017
This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2017 Black Belt session led by Thomas Graf on Cilium , a new startup that focuses on using eBPF and XDP for network and application security. Graf starts by talking about how BPF (specifically, extended BPF or eBPF) can be used to rethink how the Linux kernel handles network traffic.
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60 Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 16, 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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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
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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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 4, 2024
In the fast-evolving world of finance, data security is of paramount importance. Financial institutions must ensure the protection of sensitive personal information, most commonly payment card data, to maintain, trust and meet various regulatory requirements.
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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. Cloudant will extend IBM’s Big Data and Analytics , Cloud Computing and Mobile offerings by further helping clients take advantage of these key growth initiatives. – bg.
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U.S. Agencies Release Guidelines for DDoS Attacks
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have released a joint guide to provide organizations with steps to take before, during, and after experiencing a DDoS attack. Which is why some U.S.
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Testing times: testingRTC is the smart, synchronized, real-world scenario WebRTC testing solution for the times we live in.
Spearline Testing
JULY 21, 2022
Network: Measures your WebRTC application’s behavior in different network conditions. And all of this data can be broken down further by probe (browser). You can drill down into any of the users for more detailed information as well as check additional channel data. WebRTC network sensitivity is another headache.
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How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS?
Galido
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Technology advancements have made it necessary for retail stores to institute data security measures. As such, it is critical that the merchants comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards ( PCI DSS ) to protect the cardholder information using the Amazon Web Services as well as Amazon cloud.
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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud
All Things Distributed
APRIL 11, 2018
They are an important, but incremental, step on the journey of being able to write code and have it run in the right place, with the right scale, with the right connections to other bits of code, and the right security and access controls. How do you define access to common data stores?
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Technology Short Take 141
Scott Lowe
JUNE 18, 2021
Networking. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Second, the content reflects—in my opinion—the changing nature of what it means to be a “networking professional.”
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60 Vendor-Side DevOps Practices Can Still Deliver Better Value While Client-Side Government Processes Catch Up
CTOvision
DECEMBER 11, 2015
We must approve and deploy in an environment with significant cultural, regulatory and security guardrails. Each cloud computing provider has “opinionated” ways of handling things such as load balancing, elastic scaling, service discovery, data access, and security to name just a few.
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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Basically, they are looking to provide programmability to the network via their Application-Centric Infrastructure. This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. Juniper – Data Center Core. F5 – Security/Load Balancing.
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78 Technology Short Take #78
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. Networking. The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Servers/Hardware. Check this out.
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Technology Short Take #81
Scott Lowe
APRIL 6, 2017
I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Networking. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.
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Technology Short Take 101
Scott Lowe
JUNE 8, 2018
I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 17, 2018
Networking. Andrew Martin has a write-up with security recommendations for your Kubernetes clusters. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. For Stephen, it was data management.
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Scott Lowe
JUNE 21, 2019
Networking. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. Michael Kashin has published a couple of posts on a project of his called NaaS (Network-as-a-Service). David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS.
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Technology Short Take 119
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Networking. The Kubernetes project recently underwent a security audit; more information on the audit, along with links to the findings and other details, is available here.
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Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 14, 2017
Networking. Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Sorry about that! Hopefully the irregular schedule is outweighed by the value found in the content I’ve collected for you.
Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 11, 2015
Enhanced security through continual security updates to individual PaaS stack components Dramatically reduce overall project risk by bringing predictability to both the cost and the ramifications of introducing new applications and services. Teradata Database on AWS ( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels.
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Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Networking. Envoy is a useful project with which to be familiar; it serves as the data plane for the Istio service mesh , and it is the data plane for Heptio’s Contour ingress controller (and, by extension, Heptio’s Gimbal multi-cluster routing solution ). Julia Evans provides some Envoy basics. Servers/Hardware.
Technology Short Take #56
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Networking. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Major Hayden has an article on using Ansible to secure OpenStack hosts.
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60 Liveblog: How News UK Centralized Cloud Governance
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Kinsella now takes a moment to define governance, particuarly in terms of controlling cost, security, and compliance. Elastic Load Balancing left unused. With regards to establishing a strategy, it’s again a matter of a balancing act, and making decisions along different axes. Regular review of security groups.
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The Mayhem for API Difference - A ZAP - Mayhem for API Scan Comparison
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
With the rapid development of modern web APIs, developers must balance quality, reliability and security with time to market. This means that there are any number of unknown issues of unknown severity hidden in every API that may lead to benign errors, or at worse, serious security holes. Another tool in this space is OWASP ZAP.
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40 The Mayhem for API Difference - A ZAP - API Scan Comparison
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
With the rapid development of modern web APIs, developers must balance quality, reliability and security with time to market. This means that there are any number of unknown issues of unknown severity hidden in every API that may lead to benign errors, or at worse, serious security holes. Another tool in this space is OWASP ZAP.
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40 Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
The Global Unicast Address (GUA), is a globally-unique address that allows IPv6-equipped workloads to communicate end-to-end without any network address translation (NAT). So how do IPv6 nodes communicate across the network? Halachmi now moves on to discussing how to access resources on an IPv6 network.
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Technology Short Take #58
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Networking. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Now, on to the content! Virtualization.
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Setting up an AWS-Integrated Kubernetes 1.15 Cluster with Kubeadm
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 14, 2019
Anecdotally, I’ve heard of some success putting this command in the user data for the instance, so that it runs automatically. elb.amazonaws.com controllerManager: extraArgs: cloud-provider: aws configure-cloud-routes: "false" kubernetesVersion: stable networking: dnsDomain: cluster.local podSubnet: 192.168.0.0/16
Why SASE Sits At The Centre Of A Hybrid Workforce
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 4, 2024
Given that SASE is an approach that addresses the challenges of delivering seamless and secure connectivity for decentralised work environments, and remote working has remained a key trend over the last few years, this growth is unsurprising.
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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS
All Things Distributed
MARCH 26, 2018
Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. Each data center is highly reliable, and has redundant power, including UPS and generators. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur.
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How to Address Software Reliability, Security, and Quality Requirements with Fuzz Testing
ForAllSecure
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are considered the three core principles of security. Similar to a three-bar stool, security falls apart without any one of these components. Thus, the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) posits that security should be assessed through these three lenses.
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How to Address Software Reliability, Security, and Quality Requirements with Fuzz Testing
ForAllSecure
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are considered the three core principles of security. Similar to a three-bar stool, security falls apart without any one of these components. Thus, the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) posits that security should be assessed through these three lenses.
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Technology Short Take 149
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Networking. Ivan tackles the topic of CI/CD and testing in network automation. From the Not Surprised Department, some folks are starting to take a harder look at the timelines for security patches for older versions of macOS compared to newer versions. Michael Heap shares how to deploy a Kong Gateway data plane with Pulumi.
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Largest DDoS Attack in Internet History
SecureWorld News
OCTOBER 12, 2023
This concurrent processing, designed to enhance user experience and optimize data transfers, inadvertently introduced a vulnerability that threat actors ingeniously exploited. This method efficiently bypassed traditional security measures, flooding servers and disrupting services. Stephen Gates , Principal Security SME at Horizon3.ai,
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Lift-and-shift: Why does it undermine BSS-on-cloud transformation?
TM Forum
JULY 9, 2021
The first and most important ones are security and privacy. A lack of understanding of data protection laws and how they will apply to cloud-based BSS implementations in different geographies can have massive legal repercussions. CSPs also need to consider performance challenges. Business & Operational Evaluation.
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Evolving Strategies in Platform Operations: Harnessing Automation and DevOps for Enhanced Efficiency and Reliability
KineticData
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
At the core of Kinetic Data’s operations is a dynamic, versatile platform that underpins both our SaaS offerings and customer-managed deployments. A single push initiates security scans, linting, tests, builds, packaging, and releases, with automated checks for security compliance and test or policy failures.
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59 Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 17, 2013
He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Security policies. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. PAUL SPECIALE. Firewall rules.
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Aruba switch can cut the need for separate, single-function appliances
Network World
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Hewlett Packard Enterprise company Aruba is taking the wraps of a new flagship data-center switch aimed at helping to better control and secure hybrid-cloud traffic in the enterprise. The 10 most powerful companies in enterprise networking 2021. and Insieme Networks for software-defined networking systems.
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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. So how does this work?
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See this before logging into ChatGPT; you will need it
Dataconomy
JULY 26, 2023
Obtaining an API key ensures secure communication between the application and ChatGPT servers. Fast Response: Interacting with ChatGPT through the CLI typically results in faster responses compared to web-based options, as there are no latency issues associated with network communication. How to use the API access ChatGPT login option?
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