encryption
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Security
How to Send an Encrypted Email in Outlook
Email communications often contain sensitive information or data you don’t want to fall into the wrong hands. Using Encrypted Email communications is an excellent way to bolster the security of your email communications. This post will consider how to send…
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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 the best development in the SSL space. It allows having…
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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 datastore level“. It basically describes a nightmare scenario involving a…
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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 information in an environment. It is easily deployed following a…
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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 a cool docker container key manager. However for those really…
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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 step further, what if you want to secure the backup…
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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. When you think about backups, they contain a copy of…
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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. Â One area that may not readily come to mind is backup data. Â After all…
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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. Â Security these days is on everyone’s mind and encryption provides a solution to many security concerns. Â What happens if someone gets a copy…
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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. Â I have ran it both in a software based applianced running on a whitebox atom powered machine and also in a VMware virtual…
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