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Ransomware, zero-day exploits keep network security pros scrambling

Network World

By comparison, the firm saw data theft in only about 40% of cases in a mid-2021 analysis. It was pretty easy to do segmentation when you had a three-tiered architecture, and every tier of the architecture ran on a dedicated piece of hardware.

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Five takeaways from Cisco Live EMEA

Network World

At Cisco Live EMEA, Patel made the comparison to Apple where if one buys all Apple products, they are treated to magical experiences, which prevents one from doing something like using a Samsung phone with an Apple watch. Typically, enforcement is done by deploying firewalls at strategic points in the network.

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Technology Short Take 139

Scott Lowe

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Servers/Hardware. ” Get ready to get nerdy! I’m not sure about that. Linux malware is getting more sophisticated.

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VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Poonen revisits the VMware Workspace Suite announcement from yesterday, drawing a comparison between vCloud Suite for SDDC and the Workspace Suite for EUC. The hardware specification for EVO:RAIL is a 2U, four-node enclosure (think Dell C6100 or similar hardware form factor). But that’s another story for another day.)

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ).

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own.

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5 network automation startups to watch

Network World

AliroNet Quickstart includes quantum network hardware devices along with software that handles orchestration, control, and data plane operations. The Highway 9 Mobile Cloud also automatically integrates existing enterprise IT network and security infrastructure including firewalls, NAC, DNS tools, etc.

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