Comparison Firewall Security Virtualization 
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, I’ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. For decades, organizations have considered networking and security a cost of doing business. Our networking and security methods have been successful.
Scott Lowe
MARCH 17, 2016
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. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 24, 2015
This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). 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).
Scott Lowe
MARCH 10, 2015
What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).
Scott Lowe
APRIL 2, 2021
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?” A while ago I chatted with the folks at Indeni about Cloudrail , a security solution for infrastructure-as-code environments.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 26, 2014
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.)
ForAllSecure
MARCH 24, 2021
Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. 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. And I was able to repeat the process over and over.
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