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CloudGenix CEO: We’re Coming For Cisco’s Customers

CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran credited much of the SD-WAN vendor's growth in 2019 —...

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Automation Solution: Testing Data Models

If your automation solution relies on a back-end database with strict database schema you can stop reading… but if you (like most others) still live in the land of text files encoded in your favorite presentation format (because it’s hip to hate YAML), you might appreciate the solution Donald Johnson uses to check his data models before committing them into Git repository.

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ISPs Should Strongly Consider MANRS to Fight Cybercrime: World Economic Forum Report

A World Economic Forum (WEF) report released today recommends that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should strongly consider joining the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative to improve the security of the Internet’s global routing system.

Systemic security issues about how traffic is routed on the Internet make it a relatively easy target for criminals. MANRS helps reduce the most common routing threats and increase efficiency and transparency among ISPs on peering relationships.

The WEF Centre for Cybersecurity identifies four actionable principles as effective in preventing malicious activities from getting “down the pipes” from network providers to consumers in the report Cybercrime Prevention: Principles for Internet Service Providers, released today in Davos, Switzerland.

The principles were developed and tested over a year with leading ISPs around the world and multilateral organizations, including BT, Deutsche Telekom, Du Telecom, Europol, Global Cyber Alliance, Korea Telecom, Proximus, Saudi Telcom, Singtel, Telstra, and ITU, WEF says in a press release.

One of the principles is to “take action to shore up the security of routing and signalling to reinforce effective defence against attacks”, and MANRS, a global initiative supported by the Internet Society, is one of the recommendations to achieve the principle Continue reading

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Cisco issues firewall, SD-WAN security warnings

Amongst Cisco’s dump of 27 security advisories today only one was rated as critical – a vulnerability in its Firepower firewall system that could let an attacker bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on a particular device.The Firepower Management Center (FMC) vulnerability – which was rated at 9.8 out of 10 – comes from improper handling of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication responses from an external authentication server. With it, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device and gain administrative access to its web-based management interface.To read this article in full, please click here

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Cisco issues firewall, SD-WAN security warnings

Amongst Cisco’s dump of 27 security advisories today only one was rated as critical – a vulnerability in its Firepower firewall system that could let an attacker bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on a particular device.The Firepower Management Center (FMC) vulnerability – which was rated at 9.8 out of 10 – comes from improper handling of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication responses from an external authentication server. With it, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device and gain administrative access to its web-based management interface.To read this article in full, please click here

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VMware targets SD-WAN management with Nyansa acquisition

VMware says it plans to acquire AI-based network management and analytics firm Nyansa for an undisclosed amount.VMware said the Nyansa technology will be targeted at boosting monitoring and troubleshooting for LAN/WAN deployments within its SD-WAN package – VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud. More about SD-WAN: How to buy SD-WAN technology: Key questions to consider when selecting a supplier • How to pick an off-site data-backup method •  SD-Branch: What it is and why you’ll need it • What are the options for security SD-WAN? Founded in 2013, Nyansa’s primary technology is a cloud-based network management package called Voyance that employs AI to automate the discovery of devices on the network and identify unusual behavior.  Nyansa says it’s being used to watch-over some 20 million client devices operating across roughly 200 networks. Its customers include Tesla, Uber, Lululemon, GE Healthcare and Stanford University.To read this article in full, please click here

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Daily Roundup: VMware Buys Nyansa

VMware bought AIOps vendor Nyansa; Red Hat was integral to IBM's Q4 success; and Vapor IO scored...

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US Pledges $1B to Roast Huawei With Open RAN 5G

The proposed funding pales in comparison to the amount of money Huawei and other RAN stalwarts are...

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Survey: Digital transformation can reveal network weaknesses

Digital transformation is a catch-all phrase that describes the process of using technology to modernize or even revolutionize how services are delivered to customers. Not only technology but also people and processes commonly undergo fundamental changes for the ultimate goal of significantly improving business performance.Such transformations have become so mainstream that IDC estimated that 40% of all technology spending now goes toward digital transformation projects, with enterprises spending in excess of $2 trillion on their efforts through 2019.To read this article in full, please click here

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VMware Acquires Nyansa for AI-Aided Networking Analytics

VMware has been on a buying jag in the past year, and its latest planned acquisition is the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sanjay Uppal said in the acquisition announcement. CEO and co-founder blog post: First, Nyansa can proactively predict client problems, optimize their network, better enable the behavior of critical IoT devices, and justify infrastructure changes based on actual user, network and application data. Second, you will be able to use the breadth and depth of Nyansa’s data ingestion and analysis, including packet analysis and metrics via API across multivendor wired and wireless LAN environments. Finally, the combination of Nyansa’s AI/ML capabilities with VMware’s existing analytics, visibility and remediation capabilities will make it easier for you to operate and troubleshoot the virtual cloud network and accelerate the realization of a self-healing network. Nyansa was valued at around $65 million after its most recent funding two years ago and had raised about $26.5 million, Carbon Black. The transaction is expected to close within the next few months, subject to customary closing conditions. VMware is a sponsor of The New Stack. Feature image

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Managing Financial Network Threats with SD-Branch

Financial networks are at a constant risk — especially since they rely on risky IoT devices....

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Arista Networks Buys Big Switch

Several incumbent networking players, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, VMware, Juniper Networks,...

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Dyndns and Openvpn – Remote Management

I have visited my home and was doing some hobby IT setup with Raspberry Pi’s, the problem is that i had problems many times accessing my home PC is another Remote Location due to many reasons, lets say crappy ISP. I contacted my ISP and they said I need to take a static IP and also pay for opening up two non standard ports. Its like you pay to get tortured and then additional headache of Port forwarding.

To add more to the pain, the IP that i get from my upstream provider is a Private IP, wow I havent seen that for a while. Anyways, to get around this I was thinking about using OPENVPN as a solution along with Dyndns.

Now, setup is very simple

Clint-pc (Location 1) ———-AWS(OPENVPN)————Client-pc (Location 2)

Why AWS -> Accessible and Cost

Problem is changing IP, I dont have any business requirement or criticality to buy a Elastic IP , but whole point will be lost if my clients wont know what to access, worse I will never have access to location-2 if am in location-1 to change IP Addresses

I have mapped OPENVPN with dyndns script.

https://help.dyn.com/ddclient/

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Writing Tip: Auto-spelling to Avoid Words

Autocorrect to improve my writing

The post Writing Tip: Auto-spelling to Avoid Words appeared first on EtherealMind.

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Verizon Exec Launches Privafy, Challenges Firewall, SD-WAN, VPN Vendors

The security startup has about a dozen paying customers and is “working with some of the largest...

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Day Two Cloud 032: The Foggy Path To Cloud Certification

Certifications are a tried and true way to boost skills and knowledge, burnish your resume, and create new opportunities. But when it comes to cloud, which certifications should you pursue? Can cloud cert programs keep up with technology churn and rapid rollout of new services? How should you study? What if you fail? We tackle all these questions and more with guest Mike Pfeiffer.

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Day Two Cloud 032: The Foggy Path To Cloud Certification

Certifications are a tried and true way to boost skills and knowledge, burnish your resume, and create new opportunities. But when it comes to cloud, which certifications should you pursue? Can cloud cert programs keep up with technology churn and rapid rollout of new services? How should you study? What if you fail? We tackle all these questions and more with guest Mike Pfeiffer.

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Red Hat, Cloud Save IBM

More than 2,000 IBM clients were using its container systems, and it signed 21 Red Hat deals in Q4...

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Migration from VMware NSX for vSphere to NSX-T

Migration to VMware NSX-T Data Center (NSX-T) is top of mind for customers who are on NSX for vSphere (NSX-V). Broadly speaking, there are two main methods to migrate from NSX for vSphere to NSX-T Data Center: In Parallel Migration and In Place Migration. This blog post is a high-level overview of the above two approaches to migration.

2 Methods for VMware NSX Migration

Customers could take one of two approaches for migration.

In Parallel Migration:

In this method, NSX-T infrastructure is deployed in parallel along with the existing NSX-V based infrastructure.  While some components of NSX-V and NSX-T, such as management, could coexist, compute clusters running the workloads would be running on its own hardware.  This could be net new hardware or reclaimed unused hardware from NSX-V.

Migration of the workload in this approach could take couple of different approaches.

• Cattle:  New workloads are deployed on NSX-T and the older workloads are allowed to die over time.
• Pets:  Lift and shift workloads over to the new NSX-T infrastructure.

In Place Migration

There is simpler method though!  A method that doesn’t require dedicated hardware.  It’s an in place migration approach.  Curious?   This method uses Continue reading

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ShortestPathFirst Now Has a New, Shorter Domain Name – spfirst.net

ShortestPathFirst now has a new, shorter domain name (spfirst.net) that we intend to use for future correspondence, marketing and business initiatives. We will continue to maintain the longer domain (shortestpathfirst.net) for backward compatibility and for business continuity but for all intents and purposes will use the new domain name where possible. Stay tuned for lots …

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