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VPNs Made Easy, Panera Data Breach, and InfiniSync in Gestalt News 18.13

April 9, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

VPNs Made Easy, Panera Data Breach, and InfiniSync in Gestalt News 18.13

This week in Gestalt News:
– Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the Panera data breach
– Max Mortillaro looks at InfiniSync, a zero RPO over any distance solution from INFINIDAT
– We consider the merits of an Apple VPN

Filed Under: Gestalt News, Storage Tagged With: #SFD16, @CloudFlare, @DarkkAvenger, @INFINIDAT, @Microsoft, @StorOne_Inc, Apple, Drupal, Gestalt IT Rundown, Microsoft Windows, Panera

The History of Email

October 9, 2017 by Stephen Foskett Leave a Comment

Email is a lot like Winston Churchill said about democracy: It’s the worst form of communication except for all the others that have been tried. Cloudflare posted an excellent history of email. It’s interesting that they start with the Unix command  write instead of the more well worn start with ARPANET. From there it goes through […]

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @CloudFlare, ARPANET, Computer history, email, FTP

Pragmatic thoughts on #CloudBleed

March 3, 2017 by Stephen Foskett Leave a Comment

Troy Hunt put together a piece outlining some more subdued thoughts on the Cloudflare security bug. It certainly doesn’t underplay the severity, but also avoids sensationalism. It’s a great piece to put the security concerns into perspective, and actually looks at the risk it truly poses.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @CloudFlare, @troyhunt, Cloudbleed, security

How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack

January 12, 2017 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Mark Henderson, a site engineer for Stack Overflow, walks through how the site picked their DNS provider. The site previously bounced between on-premises BIND servers and DNS services offered through Cloudflare. In light of the Dyn DDoS attack, the site wanted more robust protection from a future outage.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @CloudFlare, @StackOverflow, @thefarseeker, Azure, DNS, Google

DARPA: Without better security, the internet of things will be messy

June 23, 2014 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

David Meyer of GigaOM comments: The burgeoning internet of things is a great idea but it won’t really take off without some serious breakthroughs in security, said Dan Kaufman, director of the Information Innovation Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), at our Structure conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Kaufman, who was […]

Filed Under: All, Favorites Tagged With: @CloudFlare, @GigaOm, Internet of Things, security

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