Cloud Security de la 20,000 de metri
Unul dintre cele mai fierbinți subiecte ale ultimilor trei ani este cloud-computing. Este o realitate, o realitate subliniată și mai mult chiar de contextul economic global.
Pentru că, fără îndoială, elasticitatea și flexibilitatea deosebită a cloud-ului conduce la reducerea cheltuielilor, la optimizarea infrastructurii, la concentrarea asupra proceselor-cheie de afaceri. Abilitatea de a extinde sau, după caz, constrâge capabilitățile de procesare și stocare a datelor poate constitui chiar un avantaj competitiv strategic.
IT Café – Episodul 4
Access Security: the apache webserver
The Apache web server has become a very popular choice to provide the basis of many technical solutions in any company. Becoming so wide-range extended there are obviously people who want to profit from any minor security breach.
The good news in this regard is that the configuration file of the service (located in / etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) is flexible and offers a range of options that can reduce security problems. Configuration changes are simple recommendations may not apply in any case practical results.
Before changing any parameter in the configuration file, the most useful is to update the version that runs on your system up-to-date. There are system utilities that do this automatically. For more information, check the documentation of the distribution that runs httpd service.
(Română) IT Café – Episodul 3
Layered security – Open Source Solutions
We continue this week our online seminar series, dedicated to IT Security technologies. This time, Mihai Doboş, CCNA, CCDA, Security Engineer at New Tech Consulting, will show you two security solutions built with the help of open-source elements. First, you’ll be able to watch an Linux Racoon – Check Point integration in order to raise-up an VPN tunnel. Second, you will see an optimization and hardening strategy for the HTTP traffic by using squid.