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. The NIST and DHS have teamed up on some efforts to secure BGP; more information is available in this article. That’s cool.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While these can be malicious hackers who are after our sensitive data, they can also be white hat hackers who ensure our security by monitoring us from a distance. How safe is it to leave our cyber security in the hands of a hacker? So what are the hats worn by these hackers and how do they change their methods and goals?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Yes, I know that security and privacy are different, but this seems like a reasonable place to put this article by J Metz on pseudo-anonymous e-mail. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Yes, I know that security and privacy are different, but this seems like a reasonable place to put this article by J Metz on pseudo-anonymous e-mail. Virtualization.

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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. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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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. What does this mean? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. You’re welcome.

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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

MARCH 2, 2017

OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. Terraform is used to turn up OpenStack infrastructure, and Skydive (via connections into Neutron and OpenContrail, in this example) is used to validate SDN functionality. What’s that?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Yes, I know that security and privacy are different, but this seems like a reasonable place to put this article by J Metz on pseudo-anonymous e-mail. Virtualization.

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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 Michael Endrizzi, a self-proclaimed Check Point fanatic, spent some time working with VMware NSX’s security features earlier this year.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

If you’re looking for more examples of how to incorporate these sorts of tools into your own network automation workflow, I’d recommend having a look at this article. If you’re interested in an update on how Docker security is evolving, this article on Docker security enhancements by Daniel Walsh is a good read.

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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. Speaking of AWS Lambda, here’s an article by CloudSploit on how they leverage AWS Lambda for their security scanning service. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 8, 2019

I’m sure most everyone is familiar with the concept of passphrases, which is the use of a phrase instead of a single password — for example, “The moon is made of ch33se!” I am a huge fan of password managers because they make my life more secure and easier. They were stored securely online, and we could access them from anywhere.

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Authentication Security Firewall Backup 68

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This post provides some examples of shared control planes (and thus shared failure domains) within networking. In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?”

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

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. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

In this episode I’ll talk with two security researchers who simply followed the rabbit. Vamosi: Cloud security is relatively new and as such it probably hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves. It was a pretty serious vulnerability; a 9 out of 10 in security. And I'm a security researcher at Wiz.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. 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 I was able to repeat the process over and over.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. 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 I was able to repeat the process over and over.

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Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

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. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) The latest example is from this article by Denny Zhang. Then again, what do I know?

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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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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. Networking. In vSphere 5.1, Technology Short Take #32.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

Frank, now the chief innovation officer and co founder of Tidal Security, returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss the ATT&CK, only this time from the perspective of his new company. He talks about the community platform that Tidal Security launched at Black Hat USA 2022. I’m reminded of when I trained to use Kali Linux.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. They'd be allowed, right?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. And so, myself and another individual named Rob Farrell, we were brought in to start a security team.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

That’s perhaps because of a dedicated group of hackers who are working to improve automotive security. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind an original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Leale: Now if you bypass that security.

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