article thumbnail

How to eliminate the default route for greater security

Network World

Part of the reason is that many enterprises use an internet perimeter firewall performing port address translation (PAT) with a default policy that allows access the internet, a solution that leaves open a possible path by which attackers can breach security.

IPv6 84
article thumbnail

How to eliminate the default route for greater security

Network World

Part of the reason is that many enterprises use an internet perimeter firewall performing port address translation (PAT) with a default policy that allows access the internet, a solution that leaves open a possible path by which attackers can breach security.

IPv6 83
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before; if I have, please forgive me.

Vmware 60
article thumbnail

SeanDaniel.com [tech]: The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business.

Sean Daniel

I haven't dug through the group policy yet but I imagine that's a likely place for that setting to be pushed to the client. Additionally, I attempted to reenable the service via Group Policy so as not to have to touch all the machines this service was disabled on. Or what action forces a reset with LAN Config running?