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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

This included installing operating system updates, NTP servers, DNS servers, static IPs, audit log options, anti-virus, etc. Ansible can help automate the backup, and you can learn more in this month’s how-to video that covers using Ansible to back up a Cisco ASA firewall. How do we do this kind of monitoring?

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Incident Response Plan | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

We can always just restore from a backup and be up and running in a few hours. When isolating infected workstations, they should be left powered on with the network cables removed and all network adapters disabled within the operating system. Okay, that’s great, but why is it such a big deal?

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The US Department of Defense has issuedethical guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence by its contractors. Ransomware defense tips for small businesses from the US Federal Trade Commission: The first step is offline, encrypted backups. We don’t have to worry about paperclips yet. There may be more coming.)

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The Ultimate Amazon Web Services Migration Guide

Altexsoft

AWS makes it much easier to backup critical systems to a remote physical location, and restore at will, without the cost and complexity of setting up backup infrastructure. Read our requirements and guidelines to become a contributor. Improved disaster recovery and high availability. Want to write an article for our blog?

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Cloud-Native Applications: Principles, Benefits, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

It works similarly to virtual machines (VMs) and is highly flexible for running operations smoothly. VMs are only installed with the help of a full operating system, whereas containers support apps using the packaging software. Read our requirements and guidelines to become a contributor. Connect Madhu on Linkedin.

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Patch Management Policy Features, Benefits and Best Practices

Kaseya

Even though patching may seem simple, it should not be handled by employees, but rather only by IT experts who follow set guidelines. Since patches must be applied to several applications and systems, technicians should learn to prioritize and classify patches according to their vulnerability risk and impact on business continuity.

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A Windows Developer in Mac Land

Successful Software

Macs have evolved rather more than PCs over the decades: they abandoned their proprietary Mac operating system in favour of UNIX in 1999, adopting the NeXTSTEP platform created by NeXT. Mac operating systems since Catalina (released in 2019) are 64-bit only. The current release (MacOS 13.0)

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