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IAM for midmarket companies
We look at the role of identity and access management in midmarket organizations.
When are Kubernetes and containers not a sensible solution?
As the major Linux distributors increasingly lean toward containers, many administrators have come to realize that containers are by no means a panacea for all their problems.
SoftEther VPN software
SoftEther is lean VPN software that outpaces the current king of the hill, OpenVPN, in terms of technology and performance.
Alternative virtualization solutions when OpenStack is too much
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?
Load test your website with Siege
A stress and benchmarking tool for websites controlled from the command line.
Versioned backups of local drives with Git
Versioning is a recommended approach to back up files as protection against hardware failures and user errors. To create versioned backups, you can use established backup programs or an open source tool that originates from the developer world: Git.
Encrypt and decrypt files with Age or Rage
Age and Rage are the Go and Rust implementations of a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool.
Quick UDP Internet connections
The UDP-based Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol comes with mandatory TLS encryption and promises faster speeds.
Policy rulesets in cloud-native environments
What a user is allowed to do in a program is usually defined by a role model, which often poses numerous challenges, especially in the cloud or for infrastructure as code. The free Open Policy Agent offers a flexible way to manage user rights.
Diving into infrastructure security
How to deal with threat intelligence on the corporate network when the existing security tools are not effective.
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