Articles from ADMIN Issue 72
OpenStack is considered the industry standard for building private clouds, but the solution is still far too complex and too difficult to maintain and operate for many applications. What causes OpenStack projects to fail, and what alternatives do administrators have?
Age and Rage are the Go and Rust implementations of a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool.
Several tactics, techniques, and procedures circulating among cybercriminals exploit Windows Subsystem for Linux as a gateway. We look at how WSL can be misused and some appropriate protections.
Zeek offers an arsenal of scripts for monitoring popular network protocols and comes with its own policy scripting language for customization.
NetTools utilities extract information from Active Directory to help admins simplify troubleshooting and administration.
The open source Samba service can act as an Active Directory domain controller in a heterogeneous environment.
We look at the role of identity and access management in midmarket organizations.
United States Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification will be required by mid-2023 to handle controlled unclassified information and win federal contracts, but it can also help minimize business risk and keep information out of the hands of adversaries.
Declustered RAID decreases resilvering times, restoring a pool to full redundancy in a fraction of the time over the traditional RAIDz. We look at OpenZFS, the first freely distributed open source solution to offer a parity declustered RAID feature.
Log analysis can be used to great effect in HPC systems. We present an overview of the current log analysis technologies.
