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High zero-day in Citrix NetScaler ADC & Gateway: Patch CVE-2026-88779
A high-severity memory overflow vulnerability was disclosed, affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway...
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HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
Storage
Envoy proxy vs. purpose-built load balancing for object storage
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
Healthcare
Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!
Lenin Martinez
Professional Services Engineer
ModSecurity DoS vulnerability (CVE-2021-42717)
Andrew Howe
Technical Author/Architect
All WAF vendors and services using ModSecurity are affected by this vulnerability (unless they have the vulnerable piece of code disabled, by chance)...
Does Niagara Networks have the answer to scaling Secure Web Gateways all the way up to 100G?
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Network Security devices such as firewalls, WAF, SWG, IPS etc. are often deployed inline with bridge mode., which has two major problems...
Simplifying web application security with the Core Rule Set v3
Andrew Howe
Technical Author/Architect
A WAF isn't a magic bullet, but, as part of a defense in depth strategy, a properly configured WAF should catch and stop common, everyday attacks...
The importance of outreach: Introducing students to load balancing
Andrew Howe
Technical Author/Architect
A recent visit to Southampton Solent University...
I wonder…Can HAProxy Proxy Protocol fix my Secure Web Gateway routing problem?
Neil Stone
Test Lead & EMEA/US Support Shift Leader
All Secure Web Gateways require client IP transparency in order to implement any proper kind of security and authentication. Which can be a real pain if you have a load balancer in the middle...
Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
The Apache Log4j utility is commonly used for logging requests by millions of Java applications to log error messages. However, recently the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 was discovered in the Apache Log4j library...
RSNA 2021 - this year's innovation: tailored high availability
Jake Borman
Operations Director
Fast forward to a post-Covid-world (if we can call it that) and in many ways the pandemic has helped us all go back to basics and appreciate what’s important in life...
Lessons from RSNA 2021: Do your medical imaging systems need critical care?
George Booth
Lead Sales Manager
The pain experienced by your support and professional service teams is enormous. Not least because every customer experiences this issue at the same time!..
Considerations for higher education institutions rolling out virtual desktops
Harrison Rockensuss
Sales Manager
There are a number of different types of virtual desktops; two of which rely on virtualization software...
Cloud migration checklist for universities: When and why
Harrison Rockensuss
Sales Manager
For each application, will you 'lift and shift' or rebuild specifically for the cloud? Which applications can't or shouldn't be moved? Do you want separate applications in separate clouds..
How to extend Net-SNMP for infrastructure monitoring
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Monitoring your infrastructure is a crucial task, and (regardless of the software you've chosen) requires you to make use of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)...
Why does high availability matter?
Zia Paul-Birabi
Content Marketing
If your applications are mission-critical, then high availability is a key risk management play worth investing in...