Security
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Install Palo Alto VM Series in VMware vSphere
Recently, in the home lab, I have been doing a lot of lab networking configurations and testing various scenarios. Recently, thanks to the great guys at Palo Alto, I was able to get my hands on a VM-series firewall to…
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How U.S. Hospitals Can Protect Against Imminent Ransomware Threat
This has been a wild year in terms of imminent disasters and extenuating events that lead to disruptions across the board. If it weren’t enough that organizations have had to face the fallout and effects of a global pandemic, cybercriminals…
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Safe Internet Surfing for Kids
When it comes to setting up a safe way for your kids to access the Internet, it is becoming more difficult. Especially if you have small children, you want to set up many safeguards to be able to protect them…
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Monitor for ZeroLogon Vulnerability Events in Active Directory
Late in the Summer, Microsoft released patches for one of the most critical vulnerabilities that we have seen in quite some time. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could completely “own” your network and do anything they want to do. The…
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Untangle 16 New Features Including WireGuard VPN
When it comes to firewalls and UTM appliances, I have tried many of them over the years. However, a goto product that I have relied on for many different types and sizes of environments is Untangle. The product is super…
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Can Ransomware Affect an ESXi host?
A particular Reddit thread caught my attention that was posted to Twitter as of last night. The title of the thread is “Witnessed my first ESXi ransomware. Crypts VMs at datastore level“. It basically describes a nightmare scenario involving a…
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VMware NSX Palo Alto Integration
Today’s network environments are more complex than ever before. The move to the public cloud and extending resources from on-premises to the cloud is not showing any sign of slowing down anytime soon. Business are continuing to leverage technologies in…
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Easy Windows Server Just In Time Administration JIT
One of the core pillars of good security with Windows Server is role-based access and least privilege access to resources in your environment. One of the newer buzzwords with security related to your Windows Server environment is called Just in…
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How to Secure RDS RDP RDSH Best Practices
Remote desktops delivered by the remote desktop protocol has received quite a bad reputation when it comes to security concerns and other vulnerabilities that come along with the RDP protocol. There have been many variants of ransomware and other malware…
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Untangle NG Firewall 15 Released New Features
Network firewalls and firewall appliances have been an interesting subject for me the past several years working in various lab and production environments. Several years back, I had a friend that recommended a firewall solution called Untangle. It was free…
