GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Panos Panay rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, most recently overseeing the development and launch of the dual-screen Surface Duo , and engineering the company’s unlikely partnership with Google on the device. We hope to see you there, virtually. Register here or below.

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Banking Microsoft Conference Virtualization 122

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). Virtualization. Networking.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

What this means is providing users access to data needed to do their job, centrally managed access policies and a leveraged role-based access control model built on Active Directory. Policies for audit, data classification and lineage must be enforced, while centralizing the audit repository, performing discovery and automating lineage.

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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

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

The browser isolation technique considers non-whitelisted websites unreliable and isolates them from the local machine in a virtual environment. This approach decouples actual browsing from the endpoint and uses a remote virtual browser. Virtualization, sandboxing, and containerization technologies are used for this purpose.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 30, 2013

VMware’s purchase of Nicira seems to be the catalyst for Cisco’s stepped up campaign against “software only” network virtualization, a form of SDN. According to Cisco’s earlier comments, customers didn’t want network virtualization per say but the capability that it brought. Software and hardware innovations.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 26, 2016

Their products include high speed random from a quantum source, powerful key and policy management with embedded secure key store, as well as flexible encryption modules for a range of applications. Advanced Hardware Security Solutions (electronicdesign.com). Related articles.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The reopening plan is part of a multistep process the social network has in place to begin restoring some of its in-person operations, which are crucial to its data center management and the development of hardware like the Portal video chatting device and its Oculus line of virtual reality headsets and accessories.

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Policies Retail Social Hardware 85

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. Virtualization. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard. Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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). Virtualization. Networking.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The European Commission shook the iPhone world to its roots this week, announcing a new policy that would require all smartphones to adopt USB-C ports for physical charging in an effort to reduce e-waste. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Again, you’ll either need an MFi device or an Apple-approved USB dongle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A hybrid meeting is a modern approach to conducting meetings that blends in-person and virtual elements,” explains Jon Morgan, CEO of Venture Smarter. “It According to a 2023 Gartner report , hybrid meetings are usually significantly less productive than in-person meetings or virtual ones. What is a hybrid meeting? “A

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Meeting Conference Video Virtualization 124

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. Virtualization. (Seriously.).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2021

With tens of thousands of Alexa-enabled devices available and hundreds of millions of units sold, Alexa has become nearly ubiquitous as a virtual assistant. Participating teams have improved the state of the art by developing improved natural language understanding and dialogue policies leading to more engaging conversations.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Facebook’s Connect conference is one of the biggest days of the year for virtual reality. Godin is the developer of Virtual Desktop, a top-selling VR app that enables desktop computer access inside headsets. By Godin’s reckoning, it would be the second time Facebook had pulled the rug from under Virtual Desktop.

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Development Virtualization Apple Social 101

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Stefan Büringer talks about optimizing Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based Kubernetes authorization. Chris Evans examines the pricing of virtual instances compared to managed servie offerings as he ponders how hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure, and Google will go about/are going about optimizing service density (i.e.,

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

CTOvision

JANUARY 24, 2017

Cloud computing provides businesses with quality solutions for their IT needs, as well as substantial cost savings over purchasing and maintaining their own hardware and software. No provider—at any price—can guarantee 100 percent protection, particularly if you don't have good security policies in effect on your own network.

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Cloud Software Software Security 150

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.” Virtualization. Vikas Choudhary discusses Istio’s Secure Naming; that is, the name given to services and the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) put on the X.509

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

1] Though some high-profile CEOs are now instating strict return-to-office policies, most are finding ways to compromise. 2] In this arena, desktop virtualization and cloud technologies will play starring roles. It also allows Montage Health to scale to meet new business demands including video and virtual visits for patients.

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Galido

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This activity is known as Vulnerability Assessment, and it aims to find weaknesses in software or hardware platforms to solve failures, before they can generate a negative impact. Once the critical processes are targeted, inventory the hardware to get an overview of your network. Detect Vulnerabilities.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Here’s a quote from the KB article : The distributed switch network health check, including the VLAN, MTU, and teaming policy check can not function properly when there are hardware virtual NICs on the server platform. Interoperability Networking Virtualization Cisco UCS VMware vSphere' Technology Short Take #5.

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TM Forum

JANUARY 27, 2022

“When we talk about cloudification we think of it as a way to optimize capex on the hardware infrastructure. And we want to apply policies to automatically activate/deactivate the containers according to certain criteria.” His aim is to take Orange far beyond the simple reduction of network infrastructure costs.

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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. Virtualization. At least, I hope so.) Networking.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

Amazon Photo) Ring has also weathered a series of controversies inside Amazon, including revelations about its policies and practices for sharing video footage with law enforcement; and previously lax security measures that gave hackers access to private home cameras, allowing them to see and talk with children in footage that quickly went viral.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They disturb the virtual classes by exposing unwanted and harmful media during ongoing classes or sessions. 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. Zoombombing.

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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. Virtualization.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 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.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Virtualization. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard. Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 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.

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Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Servers/Hardware. Liam Galvin shows a couple of ways that Rego (the language behind Open Policy Agent) can be used maliciously. Virtualization.

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

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. Virtualization. At least, I hope so.) Networking.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 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. Virtualization. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post. Lots of geekery in here!

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 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. Check out Aaron Patten’s article on vRA + SPBM (storage policy-based management) with VVols.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In perusing some of Brian’s content, I see lots of stuff at the intersection of networking and virtualization. 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.

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Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Having basic cyber hygiene Advanced technology is important, but basics like regular data backups, software updates, strong password policies, and multi-factor authentication are fundamental. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

Fractional CIOs are frequently tapped by small to midsize organizations that may not be able to afford the expense of a full-time CIO, says Randy Trzeciak, director of the masters of science information security policy and management program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. What is a virtual CIO versus a fractional CIO?

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