CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Relevant skills for the role include a technical background in IT and a strong working knowledge of IT infrastructure, databases, networks, hardware, and software, along with knowledge of data analytics, change management, vendor management, and leadership and team management skills. Average salary: US$139,683 Increase since 2021: 12.9%

Project Management 139

Project Management Engineering Devops Systems Administration 139

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There are several ways to implement Defense in Depth in your business, including: Strong Password Policies : Implement a strong password policy that requires complex passwords and regular password changes. It is also crucial to promptly apply patches and updates to protect your systems against known risks.

Security 129

Security Cloud Authentication Policies 129

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). Operating Systems/Applications.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A truly robust endpoint solution will provide protection at all levels of the device, from the core BIOS, through to the hardware, firmware and application layers. On the hardware layer, Intel boosts the security of devices with total component traceability that starts at the factory floor. Cyberattacks, Cybercrime

Security 85

Security Intel Malware Training 85

GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

based hardware company MTI promoted Allen Auchenpaugh to CEO , from VP of global services. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory promoted Joel Duling to associate laboratory director for operational systems, where he will guide PNNL’s $1.2

Artificial Intelligence 97

Artificial Intelligence Advertising Nonprofit Software 97

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Jacob Martin recently published an introduction to Open Policy Agent (OPA)’s Rego language and its role in “policy as code.” Operating Systems/Applications. 509 certificates used in mTLS. Timothy Prickett Morgan takes a look at Tesla’s “Dojo” supercomputer.

Cloud 87

Cloud Tools Applications Policies 87

SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

Traffic goes through filtering and security policies to ensure the user is only exposed to safe information. Simplifies IT management: IT professionals can apply mass policies and set up browser isolation with greater ease when multiple devices are housed in a centralized cloud environment. First, compatibility is crucial.

Security 84

Security Malware Virtualization Network 84

CTOvision

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Engineers in academia, industry and government have designed approaches to address these challenges, including mechanisms like Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to safeguard and manage security keys for authentication and conduct encryption and decryption. Until now, the state of art of HSM devices kept them out of reach of most businesses.

Security 150

Security Internet Engineering Healthcare 150

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Sander Rodenhuis wrote an article on security policies in Kubernetes. The post focuses on Otomi, which in turn leverages Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper. Operating Systems/Applications. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost.

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021. (Seriously.).

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

However, there are certain steps institutes can take to mitigate them: Have a Strong Security Policy. The first step to mitigating cybersecurity threats is to have a strong security policy. Update Systems Regularly. You should always ensure that your browsers, applications, and operating systems are running the latest version.

Education 78

Education Malware eBook Backup 78

The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

According to a photo (seen above) posted by a member of the forums, the message users receive when trying to unlock their Z Fold 3’s bootloader reads: Unlock the bootloader to install custom operating system software. Doing so will cause the camera to be disabled and may cause your phone or apps to stop working correctly.

Policies 72

Policies Security Operating Systems Software 72

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Stefan Büringer talks about optimizing Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based Kubernetes authorization. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Operating Systems/Applications. Justin Garrison shares some thoughts on whiteboarding software (and hardware). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

2] The methodology itself should include: A detailed inventory of all hardware, operating systems, and applications that exist in the network a nd the creation of the process to keep the inventory up-to-date. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 74

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Liam Galvin shows a couple of ways that Rego (the language behind Open Policy Agent) can be used maliciously. Operating Systems/Applications. Lucas Pardue and Christopher Wood share a primer on proxies. Hat tip to Matt Oswalt for putting this on my Twitter timeline.). Ivan Pepelnjak talks about the 1.2.1

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Servers/Hardware. James Hamilton is back with a more in-depth look at the components of the AWS Nitro System. Stefan Büringer writes about how you can implement “advanced” RBAC functionality in Kubernetes using Open Policy Agent (OPA).

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around!

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Jonathan Bowman writes about the new crypto policies in Fedora 33 and whether you’ll need to adjust your SSH keys. Operating Systems/Applications. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

Linux 60

Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The one caveat to his approach that may be worth mentioning is that some policies (a PodSecurityPolicy or the use of Open Policy Agent) may prevent the user from launching a Pod connected to the host’s network namespace. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve known for a while that Apple isn’t going to make iMessage available outside of iOS devices, but this trial showed exactly how thoroughly Apple has considered expanding iMessage into other operating systems — and exactly why the company doesn’t want to. 9] Tim Sweeney has been bugging Tim Cook about this for years.

Apple 109

Apple Malware Microsoft Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Servers/Hardware. If you’re trying to wrap your head around AWS IAM policies, I have yet to find a resource I can recommend more strongly than this article on AWS IAM policies in a nutshell. I strongly recommend using this article to help further your understanding of AWS IAM policies. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are an important security feature in Kubernetes. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Dan Lorenc’s article on policy and attestations does a great job of covering key concepts like signatures, attestations, and provenance. Operating Systems/Applications. I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. The first article provides a blueprint for migrating applications to VMware NSX ; the second article supplies some tips for creating filtering policies in VMware NSX.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Panagiotis Georgiadis explains how to enable PSP (Pod Security Policies) with Traefik. Operating Systems/Applications. The recent announcement of their GraphQL-based Network Query Engine (NQE)—more information is available in this blog post —is also pretty interesting to me.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

Hardware and Wear OS 3. Google has provided the base operating system, Samsung has provided much-improved hardware and a bunch of new watchface options. The watch hardware on both models is very much in line with Samsung’s earlier smartwatches, and that’s largely a great thing. Samsung Health.

Apple 76

Apple Google Hardware Data 76

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Jason Price shares a fully fleshed-out example of Kubernetes Pod Security Policies. Operating Systems/Applications. Nicola Apicella has a nice, in-depth write-up discussing Docker images, overlay file systems, and the OCI specification. Read his write-up here. Ubuntu 20.04

Linux 60

Linux Virtualization Security Backup 60

Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In data center hosting, the customer dictates the hardware, software, security, and operational processes that will be used by the provider. In cloud computing, the cloud service provider dictates the hardware, software, security, and operational processes that can be used by the customer.

Cloud 70

Cloud Dell Data Center Hardware 70

SecureWorld News

APRIL 24, 2023

Keeping software and operating systems up to date, using security software, and being careful when opening email attachments or clicking links can help avoid malware. Ensuring the crypto algorithm is compatible with the systems and applications that will utilize it is also vital. Deploying video surveillance can also help here.

Disaster Recovery 70

Disaster Recovery Security Malware System 70