The March 2019 Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic had to deal with an interesting question:
Our server team is nervous about full-scale DR testing. So they have asked us to stretch L2 between sites. Is this a good idea?
The design clinic participants were a bit more diplomatic (watch the video) than my TL&DR answer which would be: **** NO!
Let’s step back and try to understand what’s really going on:
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If you ask an ordinary person about information security, they’ll probably talk to you about endpoints. Most people are aware of virus scanners for notebooks or PCs, and may have encountered some kind of mobile device management on a work-provided phone. These endpoint solutions naturally come to mind if someone mentions cyber security. However, this is backward from the way that infosec professionals think about the issue.
Someone who works in infosec will tell you that the endpoint should be the absolute last line of defense. If a virus scanner finds malware on your work notebook, the malware should have had to defeat a long list of other security precautions in order to get that far. This layered approach to security is known as defense in depth.
The term “defense in depth” originally was applied to military strategy. It described the practice of trying to slow an enemy down, disperse their attack, and cause casualties; rather than trying to stop their attack at a single, heavily fortified point. The enemy might breach the first layer of defenses, but would find additional layers beyond. While they struggled to advance, they could be surrounded and then counter-attacked.
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This is a guest post by Johanna Larsson, of Castle, who designed and built the Castle Cloudflare app and the supporting infrastructure.
Strong security should be easy.
Asking your consumers again and again to take responsibility for their security through robust passwords and other security measures doesn’t work. The responsibility of security needs to shift from end users to the companies who serve them.
Castle is leading the way for companies to better protect their online accounts with millions of consumers being protected every day. Uniquely, Castle extends threat prevention and protection for both pre and post login ensuring you can keep friction low but security high. With realtime responses and automated workflows for account recovery, overwhelmed security teams are given a hand. However, when you’re that busy, sometimes deploying new solutions takes more time than you have. Reducing time to deployment was a priority so Castle turned to Cloudflare Workers.
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