SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

The browser isolation technique considers non-whitelisted websites unreliable and isolates them from the local machine in a virtual environment. However, conventional solutions such as antivirus, firewalls, and other detection and blocking tools can only offer a limited level of security.

Security 84

Security Malware Virtualization Network 84

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

Dataconomy

JULY 5, 2023

It’s not cool to see this message: “We are experiencing a high volume of traffic and using a virtual queue to limit the number of users on Character.AI When multiple users utilize the AI simultaneously, or if the hardware used is antiquated, it can strain the system, leading to unresponsiveness. at the same time.”

How To 76

How To Firewall Internet Artificial Intelligence 76

Galido

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In terms of information security, vulnerability is a weakness that is found in an asset or a control and that can be exploited by one or more threats, which becomes a security risk. Every security analyst knows that managing vulnerabilities in a corporate network is a never-ending task. Analyze Critical Business Processes.

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Development How To Analysis Hardware 72

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

In reality, their perceived lower level of security makes them attractive targets to malicious actors. Additionally, nonprofits must be aware of the risks posed by inadequate security in third-party services they use, such as fundraising platforms and email services.

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Nonprofit Strategy Budget Backup 86

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Can your organization's information security program become a market differentiator for your brand? This week, the company made a significant announcement about the 5G network it is rolling out, and that announcement focused on security. 4 steps to future-proof 5G security. Verizon must be betting that it is.

Network 52

Network Security Firewall Engineering 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

2] In this arena, desktop virtualization and cloud technologies will play starring roles. Notably, businesses are adopting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a way to keep data secure, teams collaborative, and staff productive while reducing costs. Additionally, VDI can reduce operational costs in two ways.

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Dell Intel Virtualization Cloud 58

Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These may include their contact information, academic and health records, financial information, social security numbers, etc. They disturb the virtual classes by exposing unwanted and harmful media during ongoing classes or sessions. Unfortunately, the education sector cannot completely eliminate cyber security threats.

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Education Malware eBook Backup 78

SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2022

The advisory notes that malicious threat actors often exploit poor security configurations, weak controls, and other faulty cyber hygiene practices in order to gain initial access to a victim's system. This is one of the most commonly found poor security practices. These techniques can be difficult to detect and protect against.

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SMB Network Software Software 69

Kitaboo

JANUARY 31, 2024

8 Key Benefits of Cloud-Based K12 Classrooms Cost Effectiveness Environment Sustainability Scalability and Flexibility Security and Privacy Accessibility and Facilitation of Distance Learning Data Storage and Backup Streamlined Administrative Processes Professional Development Opportunities for Educators III.

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Cloud Education eBook Backup 78

CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

About 30,000 people currently have access, making a higher security cloud that meets the needs of the military, while helping match various cost goals. Encompasses any number of physical and virtual servers, while supporting a huge choice of public cloud offerings. military is finding ways to improve its security and operations.

Cloud 150

Cloud Open Source Applications Firewall 150

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Virtualization. Via William’s post on configstorecli , I also saw this post by Duncan Epping on renaming a virtual switch on vSphere 7.0U2 and higher.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Servers/Hardware. 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.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). 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.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). 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.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Galido

MAY 30, 2019

The first step to determining the scope of your Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is segmenting your data networks. Network segmentation helps to improve data security and reduces the chances of breaches resulting from compromised systems. What You Should Know About PCI DSS Network Segmentation.

Network 60

Network Firewall LAN Storage 60

Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As websites are commonly hacked and breached, backups, in addition to security, are an important element for deciding on which host to go with. Enhanced Security. Security is a major issue with hosting. If you are looking for advanced security, you might consider a VPS or dedicated server vs a shared server.

Backup 103

Backup Resources Security Virtualization 103

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. Virtualization. Want to install ESXi 5.5

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Virtualization. Via William’s post on configstorecli , I also saw this post by Duncan Epping on renaming a virtual switch on vSphere 7.0U2 and higher.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

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

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2015

All of these messages derive from the assumption that one subnet = one security zone, and therefore intra-subnet communications are not secured. These protections are also expensive to implement in hardware. VMware NSX has a stateful IPv6 firewall that provides RA guard and ND inspection services.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Firewall Network Mobile 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2014

You might also consider enabling the built-in firewall (see this write-up for enabling pf on OS X Mountain Lion ; haven’t tried on Mavericks yet) for an added layer of network protection. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Macintosh Security Hardware'

Travel 61

Travel Firewall Backup Hardware 61

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

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. Servers/Hardware. David Holder talks briefly about application security with mutual TLS (mTLS) via Istio. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Virtualization. Good advice.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. In talking with customers, I find that one of the things that really challenges their thinking is how to best utilize security groups to their maximum effect. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Patrick Ogenstad outlines what’s involved with managing Cisco IOS upgrades with Ansible.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Servers/Hardware. That’s a no-no from a security perspective—see here to learn why. Mike Foley shared recently that the release candidate of the vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide has been released.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a great article highlighting some of the risks involved in relying only on HTTPS certificates to denote the “security” or “validity” of a site.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. I hope that something in here is useful to you. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. N Apps that are inherently bound to hardware Such as physical instances of software for specific (e.g. high-performance) hardware, or physical instances remaining so for scale-out reasons. heard from customers is "What should I virtualize?"

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Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

CTOvision

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Defense-in-depth, the gold standard in cyber security, has failed. The basis behind defense-in-depth is to deploy redundant layers of security products to defeat every part the cyber kill chain. Before connectivity is provisioned, the hardware identity and software hashes from the user’s device are checked. Junaid Islam.

Security 150

Security Data Center Hardware Virtualization 150

Dataconomy

MARCH 3, 2024

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) have become significant considerations. It is done by considering efficiency, scalability, and overall security. This coded transmission enhances security by making it difficult for unauthorized individuals to gain access. It results in slower internet speeds.

Network 41

Network Security Authentication Hardware 41