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Breathe New Life into Your Devices: Prepare for Windows 7 End of Life

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Your Windows 7 devices will still operate normally after January 14, but Microsoft won’t provide technical support, software updates, or security updates and fixes. Microsoft can’t afford to continue to maintain an outdated version of their operating system. Cybersecurity Risks. What Does Windows 7 End of Life Mean? million.

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Bastion Host: What Is It and Do You Really Need It?

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The concept of a bastion host first appeared in a 1990 article written by the cybersecurity researcher Marcus J. In that article about firewalls, he defined bastion hosts as “a system identified by the firewall administrator as a critical strong point in the network security. A Bastion-less Security Solution.

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Technology Trends for 2024

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Software is packaged in containers, and the containers themselves run as virtual Linux instances, but developers don’t need to know how to find and kill out-of-control processes, do a backup, install device drivers, or perform any of the other tasks that are the core of system administration. That’s just a start.

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