Join us at our inaugural Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit
We are excited to announce that the inaugural Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit, brought to you by Tigera, will take place on June 3, 2021.
The journey to Kubernetes adoption can be riddled with challenges and roadblocks. These challenges are magnified in a cloud-native context, where organizations are running hundreds—sometimes thousands—of applications simultaneously across numerous business units, for customers around the world.
What does security and observability mean in this context? What challenges should Kubernetes practitioners anticipate and what opportunities should they explore? To address these questions and to explore emerging trends, we are gathering industry experts under one (virtual) roof at the Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit.
As the industry’s first and only conference solely focused on Kubernetes security and observability, this (free) live virtual event will include discussions with technology leaders and Kubernetes users on real-world experiences, fundamentals, and best practices for securing and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments.
What to expect
The Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit is a place for DevOps, SREs, platform architects, and security teams to come together to explore trends, strategies, and technologies for securing, observing and troubleshooting cloud-native applications.
During the summit, experts from industry-leading companies like Amazon, Box, Citi, EY, Mirantis, Morgan Stanley, Continue reading
The Hedge 83: Bruce Davie and the System View
Network engineers tend to look at the world through the lens of a single device—an individual appliance, sold by a vendor, with a well-developed CLI for configuration and maintenance. Networks, however, are the “odd person out” in the world of information technology. In the broader technology world, a stronger systems-oriented view is more common. In this episode of the Hedge, Bruce Davie joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss a systems view of the world, as well as a new publishing model he’s working on, and some thoughts on the place of SDN.
You can find Bruce’s book, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, here.
Join us at our inaugural Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit
We are excited to announce that the inaugural Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit, brought to you by Tigera, will take place on June 3, 2021.
The journey to Kubernetes adoption can be riddled with challenges and roadblocks. These challenges are magnified in a cloud-native context, where organizations are running hundreds—sometimes thousands—of applications simultaneously across numerous business units, for customers around the world.
What does security and observability mean in this context? What challenges should Kubernetes practitioners anticipate and what opportunities should they explore? To address these questions and to explore emerging trends, we are gathering industry experts under one (virtual) roof at the Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit.
As the industry’s first and only conference solely focused on Kubernetes security and observability, this (free) live virtual event will include discussions with technology leaders and Kubernetes users on real-world experiences, fundamentals, and best practices for securing and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments.
What to expect
The Kubernetes Security and Observability Summit is a place for DevOps, SREs, platform architects, and security teams to come together to explore trends, strategies, and technologies for securing, observing and troubleshooting cloud-native applications.
During the summit, experts from industry-leading companies like Amazon, Box, Citi, EY, Mirantis, Morgan Stanley, Continue reading
Threat Landscape Report – Threats Evading Perimeter Defenses
Today’s reality is that security breaches are a given. Sophisticated attackers are too numerous and too determined to get caught by perimeter defenses. A new VMware Threat Analysis Unit report bears this out. In North-by-South-West: See What Evaded Perimeter Defenses, the findings are clear: despite a cadre of perimeter defenses being deployed, malicious actors are actively operating in the network. The research presents a clear picture of how attackers evade perimeter detection, infect systems, and then attempt to spread laterally across the network to execute their objective.
Watch Chad Skipper, Global Security Technologist, provide an overview of the findings.
Key insights include:
- The best offense is to evade defense: Threat actors’ first order of business is to evade detection. Evasion of defense systems is the most encountered MITRE ATT&CK ® tactic used by malware, followed by execution and discovery.
- Email attacks lead the pack: Email continues to be used as the most common attack vector to gain initial access with more than four percent of all business emails analyzed contained a malicious component
- ZIP-ing through defenses: More than half of all malicious artifacts analyzed were delivered by a Zip archive. Attackers have massively scaled up operations Continue reading
Avoiding Azure VNet Spaghetti With Virtual WAN feat. Microsoft’s Pierre Roman – Video
Pierre Roman talks Day Two Cloud podcast hosts Ned Bellavance & Ethan Banks through joining different Azure networks together, and how to avoid that spaghetti. You can listen to the full episode here. SO MUCH MORE FOR IT PROS at Packetpushers.net/subscribe. You can subscribe to the Packet Pushers’ YouTube channel for more videos as they […]
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Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness
Select all the buses. Click on bikes. Does this photo have traffic lights? As ridiculous as these questions are, you’re almost guaranteed to have seen one recently. They are a way for online services to separate humans from bots, and they’re called CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHAs strengthen the security of online services. But while they do that, there’s a very real cost associated with them.
Based on our data, it takes a user on average 32 seconds to complete a CAPTCHA challenge. There are 4.6 billion global Internet users. We assume a typical Internet user sees approximately one CAPTCHA every 10 days.
This very simple back of the envelope math equates to somewhere in the order of 500 human years wasted every single day — just for us to prove our humanity.
Today, we are launching an experiment to end this madness. We want to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch or look at their device to prove they are human, without revealing their identity. We want you to be able to prove that you are human without revealing which human you are! You may ask if this is Continue reading
Mouse Tracking Speed on MacOS – Fixing
Use CLI to set tracking to fix tracking speed problem.
Does Small Packet Forwarding Performance Matter in Data Center Switches?
TL&DR: No.
Here’s another never-ending vi-versus-emacs-type discussion: merchant silicon like Broadcom Trident cannot forward small (64-byte) packets at line rate. Does that matter, or is it yet another stimulating academic talking point and/or red herring used by vendor marketing teams to justify their high prices?
Here’s what I wrote about that topic a few weeks ago:
Does Small Packet Forwarding Performance Matter in Data Center Switches?
TL&DR: No.
Here’s another never-ending vi-versus-emacs-type discussion: merchant silicon like Broadcom Trident cannot forward small (64-byte) packets at line rate. Does that matter, or is it yet another stimulating academic talking point and/or red herring used by vendor marketing teams to justify their high prices?
Here’s what I wrote about that topic a few weeks ago:
Understanding the 3 Key Edge Deployment Options
The biggest factor when choosing an edge deployment option is whether services are available in the geographic region or regions where they are needed.Security Director Cloud Is Juniper’s SASE Vision Board
Juniper's newly announced Security Director Cloud lays a policy foundation for an eventual SASE offering. Juniper hopes to keep customers from going to competitors' offerings as it realizes its own SASE vision.
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Day Two Cloud 097: Azure Cloud Networking Essentials
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores essential networking capabilities in Azure, including Virtual WAN, VPN gateways, availability zones, SSL termination options, connecting premises and branch offices to the cloud, and more. Our guest is Pierre Roman, Sr Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft. This is not a sponsored episode.
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