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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

This included installing operating system updates, NTP servers, DNS servers, static IPs, audit log options, anti-virus, etc. 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.

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Technology Short Take 89

Scott Lowe

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. For what it’s worth, I’ve never tried NetBSD, but I have yet to run into any similar issues with any distribution of Linux I’ve tried.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Have fun reading! Networking.

Vmware 60
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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Furthermore, if the operating system pattern is Linux Oracle Enterprise, the architect would use that pattern first in its design unless technical constraints made the consumption of this pattern suboptimal to accomplish the solution’s goal. Data and Information Security

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

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.

Vmware 60
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the cyber west

Dataconomy

To further explain the differences between white hat, grey hat, and black hat hackers, let’s define each group and their characteristics. The organization’s security team then works to implement these recommendations, which may involve patching software, configuring firewalls, or implementing additional security controls.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

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. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.