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How can such a small file do so much damage?

Dataconomy

For example, an attacker might send a zip bomb to a company in an attempt to disable its antivirus software. Once the antivirus software is disabled, the attacker can then send other malware to the company’s computers. To set up a web application firewall (WAF), you will need to: Choose a WAF solution.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

Based on what I’ve seen and read so far, it seems like a lot of folks see software-defined networking (SDN), especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, as the solution to manual VLAN provisioning. The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc.

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls.