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Technology Short Take 136

Scott Lowe

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Servers/Hardware. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip. Thinking of buying an M1-powered Mac?

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

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. This year number five is is Secure configurations for hardware and software on devices , and number 11 is Secure configuration for network devices.

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

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. This year number five is is Secure configurations for hardware and software on devices , and number 11 is Secure configuration for network devices.

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

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. This year number five is is Secure configurations for hardware and software on devices , and number 11 is Secure configuration for network devices.

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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

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. Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. Is the Linux bridge efficient enough?

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

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Technology Short Take #84

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Virtualization.

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