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Blog postIf you’ve been around IEEE for a long time, you remember when your email address ____@ieee.org was just an alias that forwarded all email to your actual email provider. However, in 2013 the IEEE partnered with Google to create an actual Gmail account for your IEEE email address. While the intent behind this benefit is …
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Blog postConfluence is one of the leading enterprise wiki products. Its built-in feature set is already very powerful, and it can be extended with applications available in the Atlassian Marketplace. You can also write your own applications for private, internal use. Atlassian provides the atlassian-connect-express toolkit for building apps with Node.js, which reduces development time and …
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Blog postAccording to its official description, “Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.” Sequelize is widely used in Node.js web applications to abstract the database layer. I recently found a “corner case” for Sequelize which is possible to accomplish, but is not well documented anywhere on the web. …
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Blog postYou can enable detailed port statistics via the command-line interface (CLI) on switches in the Netgear M4200/M4300 family. I will explain how to set up a time range and port group, and apply them to a port or range of ports to gather throughput data. This post will make up for some shortcomings in Netgear’s …
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Blog postESET Security Management Center (ESMC) is the replacement for the ESET Remote Administrator (ERA) Server. You can install ESMC as a “virtual appliance” which will run on hosts such as VMWare or Linux/KVM/QEMU. Under the hood, this appliance is a CentOS 7 server running the Apache Tomcat web server. ESMC is implemented as a Java …
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Blog postGoogle Cloud Operations, formerly known as Stackdriver Logging and Monitoring, can be very confusing to set up. It’s easy to monitor something simple, but more complex cases quickly get confusing. One of the more flexible but confusing types of alert policies in Stackdriver Monitoring is a Logs-Based Metrics policy, which gives you the ability to …
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Blog postThis is a minimal PHP script that’s useful for verifying connectivity and permissions to read data from a Google Bigtable instance. Unlike some of the sparse examples in Google’s PHP SDK, this script will work for any table, and you don’t need to know anything about the structure of the table. This script tests the …
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Blog postSalt is a great choice for a configuration management system. I have found that it scales well, both in terms of number of nodes, and complexity of configurations. However, I have found one aspect of Salt that remains under-developed: Salt doesn’t have great support for custom groupings of minions. Minion groups (which could also be …
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Blog postIf you operate a Netgear switch in an environment that is subject to compliance requirements such as PCI or HIPAA, you are probably doing vulnerability scans, and the HTTP management interface of your switches will generate medium vulnerabilities (at least from Nessus): SSL Self-Signed Certificate SSL Certificate Cannot Be Trusted SSL Certificate Expiry It IS …
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Blog postcurl, or an application that uses libcurl, may have a problem with an SSL certificate that works fine when using a web browser to access the same URL. Typical error output from curl looks like this: $ curl -v https://my-subdomain.mysecuresite.com Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443… TCP_NODELAY set Connected to my-subdomain.mysecuresite.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) port 443 (#0) ALPN, offering h2 ALPN, …
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Blog postIn Part 1, I explained the general feedback mechanisms that are available in Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), and compared their strengths and weaknesses. Now I will explain the different configuration methods that can be used to select a feedback mechanism. Domain-Level SNS Configuration You can configure Simple Notification Service (SNS) feedback for an entire […]
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Blog postHow advanced is your organization’s information system management? Here’s a simple framework for thinking about your organization’s infrastructure management capabilities: Level 0: We can’t get it to work. Level 1: We got it working! Level 2: We got it working and documented the process so that we can set up similar systems on a repeatable […]
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Blog postAmazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a lean, low-cost option to send bulk email. However, the low cost of SES comes at a cost; it lacks many features that are built into SendGrid or other email services. You have to build your own “features” with combinations of other AWS services. The figure below summarizes some […]
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Blog postWearing the CISO Hat As someone who works in the CIO/CTO role in smaller organizations, I often have to act as the CISO and sometimes even as the compliance officer. Disadvantages As someone who is not a security specialist, there are a number of disadvantages to taking on the role of CISO. The most obvious […]
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Blog postHave you encrypted the hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) on every laptop in your organization? If your business or nonprofit organization handles Protected Health Information (PHI), you should encrypt every laptop as soon as possible! Laptops that store PHI may be one of the greatest vulnerabilities in any organization. Just one stolen laptop can […]
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Blog postAmazon S3 is widely used as a repository for backups. Backups are an important aspect of a resilient system, but they are also a potential security vulnerability. Unauthorized access to a database backup is still a PCI or HIPAA violation. The permissions on Amazon S3 should be configured to minimize access to critical backups. My strategy is to use IAM to […]
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Blog postSSH is a powerful tool for accessing remote systems. This guide will illustrate one of the more confusing and poorly documented capabilities of the ssh command on Linux: port forwarding. Port forwarding is a way to “tunnel” any TCP protocol through a secure, encrypted SSH connection. It can also be used to make network connections transparent to the applications […]
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Blog postThe Open Compute Project (OCP) is valuable to enterprise IT professionals because it embodies the best practices of companies that operate hyperscale computing systems. It’s not often that a business is willing to share information about the practices that are key to their competitiveness. Economical, efficient, and scalable infrastructure is crucial to the success of […]
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Blog postRootwork consultant and co-founder Craig Finch will participate in a panel discussion about the Open Compute Project at the Data Center World conference, which takes place in Orlando, FL from October 19-22, 2014. The panel discussion (TRD-8) will take place from 4:30-5:30PM on Tuesday October 21 in Barrel Spring 1.
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Blog postCraig Finch has written a feature article for HPCwire about how outdated system administration practices are holding back the growth of high performance computing.
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