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Tag: encryption

How to Send an Encrypted Email in Outlook
Security

How to Send an Encrypted Email in Outlook

This post will consider how to send an encrypted email in Outlook, different types of encryption, and how this can be implemented. What is encryption? Encryption is probably one of…

by Brandon LeeApril 19, 2023August 6, 2024
Automate Letsencrypt Certificate Renewal with PowerShell
Automation

Automate Letsencrypt Certificate Renewal with PowerShell

SSL certificates, especially in the home lab, can be difficult to manage and maintain if you have even a handful of VMs to eliminate certificate errors. Letsencrypt has been arguably…

by Brandon LeeDecember 18, 2020October 25, 2023
Can Ransomware Affect an ESXi host?
Security

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…

by Brandon LeeOctober 15, 2020January 11, 2021
How to Create a Self-Signed Certificate for Nginx in Ubuntu 18.04
Security

How to Create a Self-Signed Certificate for Nginx in Ubuntu 18.04

In the last post, we looked at how to configure and setup a Netbox installation to model and document your network. Netbox serves as the “source of truth” for network…

by Brandon LeeJune 10, 2019January 11, 2021
Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption
vSphere 6.5

Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption

As we have covered in previous posts, VMware virtual machine encryption requires an external key manager.  There has been work done to allow testing this feature out by way of…

by Brandon LeeDecember 18, 2017December 1, 2023
Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups
vSphere 6.5

Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups

We have covered in detail how to in general provision an FTP server using FileZilla for the purposes of targeting for our VCSA 6.5 backups.  However, to take this a…

by Brandon LeeOctober 25, 2017January 11, 2021
Secure Backup Data in flight and at rest with Nakivo
Backup Software

Secure Backup Data in flight and at rest with Nakivo

Protecting our data in today’s security conscious world is imperative for all infrastructure systems. However, an area that often gets overlooked when thinking about protecting sensitive data is our backups.…

by Brandon LeeMay 15, 2017January 11, 2021
Create Encrypted Backup Repository with Nakivo Backup and Replication 6.2
Backup Software

Create Encrypted Backup Repository with Nakivo Backup and Replication 6.2

With data security being at the forefront of everyone’s mind in the digital world we live in, we need to think about security in every aspect.  One area that may…

by Brandon LeeNovember 9, 2016January 11, 2021
VMware vSphere 6.5 Configure Encrypted VMs
vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere 6.5 Configure Encrypted VMs

One of the new exciting features that was introduced with vSphere 6.5 is the encrypted VMs feature.  Security these days is on everyone’s mind and encryption provides a solution to…

by Brandon LeeNovember 3, 2016January 11, 2021
How to connect Shrew Soft VPN client to Sophos IPsec VPN
Security

How to connect Shrew Soft VPN client to Sophos IPsec VPN

So far I have really been impressed with the features and power of the Sophos UTM appliance.  I have ran it both in a software based applianced running on a…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 27, 2015January 11, 2021

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