High Availability
Do you really need 5 different ways to back up a load balancer?
Well, do you? After all, everyone likes to have choices, don't they?..
Have you actually tested that you can restore your Kemp LoadMaster backup?
OK, so I probably should have read the manual first... But what kind of engineer does that?!..
Security
The role of load balancers in zero trust architectures
Getting on board with zero trust is the easy part. Actually applying these principles to your architecture is less black and white...
Comparisons
Compare Layer 4, 7, and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques
The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"..
Security
Spring Framework vulnerabilities
It is understandable that SysAdmins, DevOps, and most in the IT and Security Departments involved want to ensure all load balancers are fully patched and protected, given that our product plays an important role in their topology...
Open source
NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...
Security
Stack Clash and Loadbalancer.org
The long and short of it is, there are updates to the Linux kernel and glibc packages which will 'fix' the issue..
AWS / Azure / GCP
IAM what I am
For several years, if an instance was launched in AWS and during the initial configuration an IAM role was not defined, the only option available was to stop/terminate the instance and launch another, however, this has now changed!..
Security
Not so sweet, Sweet32 vulnerability...
I am going to focus on how simple it is to mitigate it when using the SSL termination/offloading options available on a Loadbalancer.org appliance...
Security
New PuTTY vulnerability "vuln-ech-overflow" identified - upgrade to 0.66 to protect your environment
Due to the way that PuTTY uses a signed integer variable to store the number of characters to be erased and there was inadequate checking for overflow, there was the potential for an attacker to corrupt important data in certain circumstances...
Microsoft
Microsoft drops support for mstshash RDP cookies? (embrace and destroy policy?)
We are pretty sure Microsoft have quietly fixed this bug and not told anyone... But the story is quite fun so lets leave it here for a lesson in corporate stupidity..