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. This tool exports the DFW configuration and then converts it into Excel format, and is available on GitHub. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. A Common Controls Assessment offers an invaluable tool to optimize compliance efforts across various lines of business and to the internal service providers of security patterns alike.

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Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

PRTG Network Monitor is a solid infrastructure management tool and network monitor. It is a helpful tool for organizations of all sizes, from SMEs to large corporations, making networks more solid and reliable. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. PRTG is a helpful tool for: Avoiding expensive falls. The work stops.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Aside from a Windows VM I maintain for the occasional thing I can’t do effectively on Linux or OS X, I haven’t worked with Windows in any significant capacity in quite a while.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Aside from a Windows VM I maintain for the occasional thing I can’t do effectively on Linux or OS X, I haven’t worked with Windows in any significant capacity in quite a while.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

It has become a popular tool for remote administration, allowing users to manage computers and servers from a remote location. This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. and the open-source community. What is a Virtual Network Computing port?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

If you’re looking for more examples of how to incorporate these sorts of tools into your own network automation workflow, I’d recommend having a look at this article. Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. The workflow incorporates Ansible, git, Jenkins, and Gerrit. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Sysdig Falco , a behavioral security tool with support for containers (can run in a container and can monitor containers) looks like it could be a useful addition to your security toolset. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

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. Massimo Re Ferrè recently commented on—in his words— the “incestuous” relationships between all the various orchestration/scheduling tools out there.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Here’s a quick post on using Fedora 25 as a hypervisor, leveraging KVM (part of the Linux kernel, as you probably already know) and a tool called Virtual Machine Manager.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

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? You’re welcome.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware. Programming.

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Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. App Firewall? Might be a useful tool for other environments, too. Venky explains it in this post.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) DVM looks handy.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

That’s what Nil and Sagi started looking at, the configuration tools that are out there for managing and they wanted to see what could happen if someone set it up all wrong. This service holds metadata about the currently running virtual machine instance, such as storage, network configuration and more.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it. Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. App Firewall? Might be a useful tool for other environments, too. Venky explains it in this post.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 15, 2013

I’ve written before about adding an extra layer of network security to your Macintosh by leveraging the BSD-level ipfw firewall, in addition to the standard GUI firewall and additional third-party firewalls (like Little Snitch ). The robust pf firewall should now be running on your OS X Mountain Lion system.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This November at Linux Academy, we have loads of new content coming your way! To all of our learners who may know someone who wants to learn more about the cloud or Linux, but they have been on the fence about signing up for a free community edition account, then tell them that right now is a great time for them to sign up!

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Linux Academy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Amazon SageMaker Studio unifies all of the tools needed for ML development. There are, of course, many more announcements from the keynote and Linux Academy will continue to blog throughout the week, but those were a few of the exciting announcements that caught my eye from the keynote. In closing. So stop by and say hello.

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