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Dan Goodman
photo cred: major.io What is SELinux and what can it do for you? In this week’s Vblog, Dan Goodman dives deep into all things Linux Security, what it can and can’t do for you as a user and the process of implementation in your system. (scroll down for video) SELinux: The Basics and What it […] Read More: All Things #LinuxSecurity: What is SELinux and what can it do for you?
George Chanturidze
This transcript is from StormWind Studios’ Vblog: All Things SELinux Hey there, folks. Welcome to our next entry in the Linux Security blog, if we want to call it that, focusing on all things basic security pretty much across the board when you’re talking about any distribution of Linux. In the first video we put […] Read More: Transcript: All Things Linux Security
Raymond Lacoste
How can you protect your ship from an explosion? The same way you can protect your network from malicious users of course! The first step is recognizing vulnerabilities within your network. The second is distinguishing who has the responsibility of maintaining and reducing those vulnerabilities. When you reduce your vulnerabilities, you reduce the risk of […] Read More: 4 AWS Vulnerabilities
Dan Goodman
As an internet user, you have three ways to manage your access points; the Autonomous Architecture, the Cloud-Based Architecture and the Split-MAC Architecture. In this week’s VBlog, Dan Goodman explains each and dives further into their implications and how they can benefit managing access points. (scroll down for video) Wireless Access Points: the Basics If […] Read More: 3 Flavors of Wireless Access Points
Raymond Lacoste
Is the “Do it Yourself” approach to your current database taking up too much of your time? Are you thinking that it may be time to upgrade your 7-year-old MySQL hardware? Amazon RDS has your solution! In this week’s vBlog, Raymond Lacoste provides 5 considerations to make the switch to Amazon Web Services Relational Database […] Read More: 5 Reasons to Switch to Amazon RDS
Raymond Lacoste
We love Meraki products, easy to set up, easy to troubleshoot, easy to monitor, easy to maintain. Even though they are easy, you can still get tripped up.In this week’s vBlog, Raymond Lacoste, shares five things to have a much better, easier Meraki Security Appliance deployment experience. Photo credit: Cisco Meraki But first, […] Read More: 5 Things You Should Know About Meraki Security Appliances
George Chanturidze
It’s the final day of the challenge and we are already getting some fantastic feedback from participants about when we will be running this event again! We are hoping very soon with some additional challenges and videos from Mike Vasquez. Big thank you to all of our participants and a reminder to them to finish […] Read More: Day #5 of our Network Defender Challenge
George Chanturidze
Thank you so much for all the feedback and response to our 5-Day Challenge! We are in the thick of day 4 for Admins and Managers! Missed you this time? We’d love to have you participate next time for more chances to win prizes and to become a StormWind Network Defender! http://ow.ly/tGtH30g4XSy For those in […] Read More: Day #4 of our Network Defender Challenge
George Chanturidze
As serendipity would have it, one of the hottest questions on Spiceworks today is “What is a good vulnerability network scanning software?” This coincides nicely with the 3rd Day of our Network Defender Challenge that has Admins running vulnerability scans and Managers analyzing vulnerability policies. There a quite a few options out there for paid or free […] Read More: Vulnerability Management + Day #3 of our Network Defender Challenge
Dan Young
This week the Economic Times ran a fascinating editorial about the mind and behaviors of a hacker referred to as Alok. He has three years experience with a hacker collective on the dark web. He’s secretly wealthy due to the theft and fraud he’s committed as a hacking foot soldier that he can’t share with […] Read More: From the Mind of a Hacker + Day #2 of our Network Defender Challenge