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Top 5 Tips to Improve Your Linux Desktop Security 2017

Galido

Having Linux as your operating system is one of the better decisions you can make concerning your computer’s security. Having this OS on your desktop allows you to relax a little bit when it comes to many forms of security breaches, which would probably inflict serious damage to less security-oriented systems.

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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

Our friends at the Center for Internet Security (CIS) listed “Secure Configurations” as the No. This included installing operating system updates, NTP servers, DNS servers, static IPs, audit log options, anti-virus, etc. These tools provide reporting on changes to the operating system — but come with a price tag.

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What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

Dataconomy

With VNC, we can seamlessly connect to and control computers from anywhere in the world, as long as we have an internet connection. This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall.

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Top Ten Ways Not To Sink the Kubernetes Ship

Linux Academy

Vulnerabilities at the operating system level may be exploited by rogue container workloads if not hardened. Fortunately Aquasec has provided us a utility for the automated scanning of our clusters against the Kubernetes benchmark published by CIS (Center for Internet Security).

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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. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall.

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Technology Short Take #46

Scott Lowe

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #68

Scott Lowe

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 Operating Systems/Applications. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading.

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