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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

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Security policies are intended to define what is expected from employees within an organization with respect to information systems. The objective is to guide or control the use of systems to reduce the risk to information assets. Now we need to know our information systems and write policies accordingly. Firewall Policy.

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Advanced SSH Tunneling

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Dev Ops Technical Consultant First, a review of simple TCP SSH tunnels: Many of us are quite familiar with the setup of SSH tunnels using the “-L” and “-R” options to do TCP port-forwarding?—?to If opening a privileged port for listening on a remote system, the “PermitRootLogin” the directive must be set to either “yes” or “without-password”.

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Hardware VPNs or Software VPNs? What’s the Best Option?

Strategy Driven

Pre-installed clients on your operating system also count as software VPN. Hardware VPNs are devices with dedicated processors that offer VPN, and firewall features. Plus, get this; hardware VPNs don’t have the same configurations like corporate firewalls and routers. What Is a Hardware VPN? And that’s not all.