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Ransomware, zero-day exploits keep network security pros scrambling

Network World

The networks that enable today’s hyper-distributed enterprises face persistent and emerging security challenges. By comparison, the firm saw data theft in only about 40% of cases in a mid-2021 analysis. So now, one of our hot topics is how to detect such fraud – our API security team is all over it right now,” Anderson said.

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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. In talking with customers, I find that one of the things that really challenges their thinking is how to best utilize security groups to their maximum effect. Read more about it here.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start.

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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 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

The partnership brings together AirWatch and SAP Secure Mobile for the secure delivery of applications to mobile devices. Poonen revisits the VMware Workspace Suite announcement from yesterday, drawing a comparison between vCloud Suite for SDDC and the Workspace Suite for EUC. But that’s another story for another day.)

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