The outside specialist’s job in IT is part-technician, part-detective. You’re trying to get to the bottom of surreal mysteries like “who murdered the company’s web app”. The suspects (including the likely killer) are all rooting for you to solve the Read More …
In the IT sector, as in life in general, we tend to use what works. If hardware, software, or a particular process is ‘what all companies I know’ are doing, then there’s a tendency to just leave it at that. Read More …
Does your team already have the skills required to get the job done? That, in a nutshell, is the first question you ask before you hire a technical person. But the natural follow-up question is just as important to ask: Read More …
Juniper Networks yesterday released a security advisory of a serious vulnerability in JunOS. It relates to a an information leak in J-Web, the web based GUI for JunOS products such as SRX and EX Switches. It is serious because it Read More …
Devops (development and operations) is a type of agile relationship between Software Development and IT Operations supporting it Most organisations producing software have, by now, implemented an agile development strategy. Their customers expect to have input, get frequent access to feature updates Read More …
Amazon Web Services has evolved beyond being just a cloud platform for websites and web applications. A broad range of services which AWS provides today can be put to use either individually or collectively to solve unique business problems. Business critical apps need to be Read More …
Understanding where the firewall sits in the topology is key, as over time, new networks are added, removed or duplicated for any number of reasons. Reviewing interfaces, IP networks, routing and forwarding configurations will help to identify which parts of Read More …
An important part of any security compliance audit is the ability to show that a firewall’s production configuration is compliant with the organization’s stated policies. Many factors contribute and cause to firewall policy and configuration creep. Annual Firewall Reviews should be conducted Read More …
A recent article at Network World by Zeus Kerravala highlighted the design phase as the most cost effective point to apply an IofT security strategy. We couldn’t agree more. In our previous article on Network Design, we shared how segmentation could be integrated into a traditional network. This Read More …
A common assumption when troubleshooting cloud application performance is that a network fault is the root cause. But that turns out to be the case less than 50% of the time. Fortunately there is a super quick way to verify one way or Read More …