Improve the ROI of Your Database Protection Investment

When an organization considers switching a mission-critical compliance or security system from one vendor’s solution to another it’s a very big decision. There is expense involved in acquiring the new solution, it will take time and money to deploy and retrain staff, and it will take careful...

Cloud Migration: Technical and Business Considerations

If you’re like many businesses, you’re moving applications into public and private cloud infrastructures. You’ve seen how the cloud’s agility, resiliency, and scalability drives business growth. Fortunately, rolling out new apps in the cloud is easy when you have containers, microservices, and...

Five Cloud Migration Strategies for Applications

Regardless of your current IT environment or your vision for migrating to the cloud, numerous strategies exist that can accommodate your cloud-migration approach. Fortunately, this range of options allows you to proceed with caution while making progress toward your ultimate objective. Always kee...

Firewall Bursting: A New Approach to Better Branch Security

One of the most common network security solutions is the branch firewall. Branch firewall appliances can pack into a single device a wide range of security capabilities including a stateful or next-generation firewall, anti-virus, URL filtering, and IDS/IPS. But the reality is that most of these...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: docker-1.13.1-44.git584d391.fc26

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

Boost productivity of your DevOps teams and deliver superior digital experiences with Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform - Part 3

In the first and second part of this blog series, we discussed the challenges associated with cloud adoption and how you can leverage Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform, the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, to achieve the scalability, availability, reliability, security and...

Reduce cloud adoption risks and deliver superior digital experiences with Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform - Part 1

Businesses are rapidly moving to the cloud and a recent IDG survey indicates that 70% of businesses have at least 1 application in the cloud and 16% plan to take their first app to the cloud in the next 12 months. However public cloud providers present their own challenges. They are unreliable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: glusterfs-3.10.6-4.fc25

GlusterFS is a distributed file-system capable of scaling to several petabytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is one of the most sophisticated file systems in terms of features and...

FAQ: Citrix Secure Gateway/ NetScaler Gateway Secure Ticket Authority

Note : The same principles and concepts holds good for NetScaler Gateway as well. This article answers some frequently asked questions regarding the Citrix Secure Ticket Authority STA. The questions are divided into following four categories: Overview Q: What is the Secure Ticket Authority? Q: Wh...

ACLight - PowerShell Script for Advanced Discovery of Privileged Accounts (includes Shadow Admins)

ACLight is a tool for discovering privileged accounts through advanced ACLs Access Lists analysis. It includes the discovery of Shadow Admins in the scanned network. The tool queries the Active Directory AD for its objects' ACLs and then filters and analyzes the sensitive permissions of each one...

SUSE-SU-2017:2676-1 Security update for Salt

This update for salt fixes one security issue and bugs: The following security issue has been fixed: - CVE-2017-12791: Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation allowed remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID bsc1053955...

SUSE-SU-2017:2674-1 Security update for Salt

This update for salt fixes one security issue and bugs: The following security issue has been fixed: - CVE-2017-12791: Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation allowed remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID bsc1053955...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: cyrus-imapd-3.0.4-1.fc26

The Cyrus IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol server provides access to personal mail, system-wide bulletin boards, news-feeds, calendar and contac ts through the IMAP, JMAP, NNTP, CalDAV and CardDAV protocols. The Cyrus IMAP server is a scalable enterprise groupware system designed for use fro...

Microsoft Launches Ethereum-Based 'Coco Framework' to Speed Up Blockchain Network

A growing number of enterprises are showing their interest in blockchains, but the underlying software fails to meet key enterprise requirements like performance, confidentiality, governance, and required processing power. However, Microsoft wants to help solve these issues and make it easier for...

Pelco VideoXpert 1.12.105 - Directory Traversal

Schneider Electric Pelco VideoXpert Core Admin Portal Directory Traversal Vendor: Schneider Electric SE Product web page: https://www.pelco.com Affected version: 2.0.41 1.14.7 1.12.105 Summary: VideoXpert is a video management solution designed for scalability, fitting the needs surveillance...

AnswerX - Akamai's 'Secret' DNS Platform

As I work with Operators all over the world, I'm amazed at two worrying. First, Operators are still treating DNS as an afterthought. Everyone knows that if DNS is down, the network is down. Too many people are taking DNS's resiliency for granted. DNS "just works" is assumed to be norm until it do...

BASS Automated Signature Synthesizer: BASS

BASS Automated Signature Synthesizer BASS pronounced “bæs” is a framework designed to automatically generate antivirus signatures from samples belonging to previously generated malware clusters. It is meant to reduce resource usage of ClamAV by producing more pattern-based signatures as opposed t...

AWS Public Sector Summit 2017: Cloud Super Powers and Security

Coalfire recently returned from the Amazon Web Services AWS Public Sector Summit, held in Washington, D.C., which addresses some of the most pressing issues todays leaders face around security, governance and compliance, and more. While Coalfire has attended the show in the past, we were especial...

Mozilla InvestiGator: MIG

Mozilla InvestiGator Mozilla’s real-time digital forensics and investigation platform MIG is a platform to perform investigative surgery on remote endpoints. It enables investigators to obtain information from large numbers of systems in parallel, thus accelerating investigation of incidents...

Reaching toward universal TLS SNI

The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in client support for TLS SNI a technology standard that makes HTTPS much more scaleable. While early 2014 saw fewer than 85% of HTTPS requests being sent by clients supporting TLS SNI, many Akamai customers today now see client TLS SNI usage...