When you hear the word security in today’s information technology climate, you may feel shivers down your spine. IT security has been a rapidly growing field for some time now. The news has been full of stories dealing with data breaches, ransomware, and lots of things you hopefully have not experienced in your environment. Whether …
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Welcome to your #VMwareSummerReading list for 2018! Want to learn more? Check out this intro post. Tag your blogs with #VMwareSummerReading all summer long (June – September), and have them added to this list! Stop back here to learn something new! Click here to read your topic of choice, or simply scroll through the list. …
One of the most overlooked, but most important features of VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere is vCenter Roles and Permissions. You may have also heard the term Role-Based Access Control (or RBAC), which ties into this subject very closely. vCenter Roles and Permissions have been overlooked through the life of the vSphere product suite, and …
Learning about security is something that is, or should be, on everyone’s todo list. As we look to the public cloud for new ways to deploy and manage infrastructure, we also have to look at how new security models and procedures have to come along with it. An interesting way to make this easier and …
As technologists, security is a part of our daily lives. If it isn’t it should be. After all, just look at the recent Ransomware outbreaks that have crossed the news headlines. Now, let’s grossly simplify how some security software works. Many times, when we’re using a security product, it has a definition database. This database, …
VMware NSX, VMware’s Network Virtualization and Security platform is one of their hottest technology platforms. VMware NSX is all about micro segmentation, a policy based method for ensuring resources are configured with the appropriate security settings. There is, of course, tremendous business value provided by a technology such as this. Before we talk about this, let’s …