Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts.

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Last year, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM began offering machine learning tools in the cloud, allowing developers easy access to an array of tools previously available only to data scientists. What’s amazing about this project is that AirBnB has released it as open source to the community so that anyone can use it.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 11, 2020

Dr. Brumley says there are appropriate tools for each of the different phases of development. Tools like Docker become really popular because during development we can test both--a development platform as well as how it's going to be operated and make sure those are consistent and that we've put in all best practices.”

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 11, 2020

Dr. Brumley says there are appropriate tools for each of the different phases of development. Tools like Docker become really popular because during development we can test both--a development platform as well as how it's going to be operated and make sure those are consistent and that we've put in all best practices.”

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 11, 2020

Dr. Brumley says there are appropriate tools for each of the different phases of development. Tools like Docker become really popular because during development we can test both--a development platform as well as how it's going to be operated and make sure those are consistent and that we've put in all best practices.”

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

It is important to use security tooling such as OpenSCAP, the open source version of the Security Content Automation Protocol, to harden virtual machine images prior to their deployment in virtual private clouds. Server Hardening. Any organization utilizing Kubernetes must be doing so to allow for scale.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” 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. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?

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Galido

JULY 11, 2018

As an open source content management system (CMS) , WordPress helps to create websites without developers and designers intruding at every step. It offers impressive on-site SEO tools which make Google indexing easy. Firewalls shield your sites at all times and WordPress redirects unsafe HTTP requests to the HTTPS version.

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Galido

AUGUST 22, 2018

As an open source content management system (CMS), WordPress helps to create websites without developers and designers intruding at every step. It offers impressive on-site SEO tools which make Google indexing easy. Firewalls shield your sites at all times and WordPress redirects unsafe HTTP requests to the HTTPS version.

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Galido

JUNE 30, 2016

They use various methods to host the virtual mobile applications and their data, but in most cases almost every bit of it exists safely beyond the firewall. For Virtual Mobile Infrastructure, Android is the best operating system due to its large customer base and open source feature.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. Jason Boche published an article describing an issue with VMware Tools and VM snapshots. I’m particularly encouraged by 2 things about OHMS. Career/Soft Skills.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A platform that started as a blogging tool has evolved into a globally renowned solution that makes website design and development more accessible and easier than ever. WordPress sites can be structured in an almost infinite number of ways, integrating with numerous other open-source plugins and third-party systems.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

and the open-source community. 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.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Here’s another interesting tool that I haven’t had the opportunity to actually test myself. Everyone heard about the vCenter Certification Automation Tool , right? Go ahead, read up on YAML. Interesting.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators. Plus, when you add in cloud-based gen AI tools like ChatGPT, the percentage of companies using gen AI in one form or another becomes nearly universal. They need stability.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. Second, we must use the right tools. Most tools today require source code and are built with developers in mind. One common approach to addressing software security issues is applying network filters.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

It’s important to understand that launching an offensive cybersecurity strategy does not mean abandoning traditional defensive measures such as deploying firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), anti-malware software, patch management, security information and event management (SIEM), and other such tools.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. Second, we must use the right tools. Most tools today require source code and are built with developers in mind. One common approach to addressing software security issues is applying network filters.

Programming 40

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. Second, we must use the right tools. Most tools today require source code and are built with developers in mind. One common approach to addressing software security issues is applying network filters.

Programming 40

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. That’s the tool side. How did this happen?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. That’s the tool side. How did this happen?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

They can do it themselves by hiring more people and aggressively taking advantage of tools and services from the major cloud providers. Maintained audit control of open source applications running in your cloud-native or containerized workloads? Open source applications running in the cloud need to be copyrighted.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Here are some comments from cyber experts about the AI Cyber Challenge: John Dickson, CEO of Denim Group: "This is a great initiative that could help to accelerate the development of new AI-powered cybersecurity tools. We need to continue to invest in traditional cybersecurity measures, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

Just because you have a tool, like ATT&CK, you might not realize its full potential without someone being there to guide you … at least in the beginning. Kali is a swiss army knife of useful tools. But the overwhelming number of tools is daunting. Or when certain tools might be useful. Training is important.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. And they did, relatively quickly, using something known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. You find clues.

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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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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2023

Plus, it is readily available to anyone on an open-source basis. A more judicious strategy is to combine the use of such tools with extra mechanisms that foil abuse proactively. An endpoint web application firewall (WAF) can closely monitor incoming traffic and works wonders in forestalling zero-day incursions.

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Galido

MAY 14, 2016

If you have to do anonymous chatting, and you’re behind a firewall, you can install the Orbot proxy tool, which will get you through. Cryptocat is a secure open source messaging extension for the Google Chrome browser. Open source. Tox is free, open source, and available on Linux, Windows, and Mac.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD).

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

A simple analogy would be who is going to manage which doors to lock and which to keep open. 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. One of the IP addresses was the instance metadata service.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

You know, because what we had to do is actually go out physically obtain the data, bring it back to a central location, copy the data across to another drive, process it one by one with a whole bunch of tools and open source solutions, etc, etc. And then eventually, you come out with a timeline of the events of what's happened.

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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. CoreOS has extended their online validator to validate both Ignition configurations (Ignition is their tool aimed at machine provisioning) as well as cloud-config configurations.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

We do the same thing for firewalls. And these are benefits of you ensuring that you have multi factor authentication that your mobile strategy is solid, that you're, you know, one of the big things that we're seeing now is that almost every open source code library that everyone uses everywhere has multiple vulnerabilities in it.

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