Load balancers are built to help scale up your back end servers, to allow for the growth of users. But what if the load balancer could also grow with you?
We get a lot of customers asking to buy a single load balancer. Understandably. One is cheaper than two. But here's why you might want a pair.
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. It is a critical vulnerability because it gives full root privileges to any local user or attacker.
We love complex rules. Although, we have seen some pretty scary config files.
All WAF vendors and services using ModSecurity are affected by this vulnerability (unless they have the vulnerable piece of code disabled, by chance).
Network Security devices such as firewalls, WAF, SWG, IPS etc. are often deployed inline with bridge mode., which has two major problems.
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.
A recent visit to Southampton Solent University.
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.
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.
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.
The pain experienced by your support and professional service teams is enormous. Not least because every customer experiences this issue at the same time!
There are a number of different types of virtual desktops; two of which rely on virtualization software.
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
Object storage has usurped structured data storage as the superior storage architecture solution. And for good reason.
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).
If your applications are mission-critical, then high availability is a key risk management play worth investing in.
Increasingly, credit unions are looking to load balance their applications to offer highly available and more resilient services to their members.
Hands up here who is guilty of making that “simple” code change in a production environment, only to find it has broken some other functionality?
Robotic Process Automation simulates user input to drive GUI applications, freeing up clinical staff from admin tasks, reducing human error, saving money, and allowing frontline staff to spend more time with patients.
The "ARP problem" for Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) mode is something that needs to be solved for each of your Real Servers in the virtual service.
If you need to guarantee the performance and reliability of your financial applications but aren't sure if you need a load balancer to do this, then this blog is for you.
So you're probably here because you want to know how to achieve an A+ rating for your SSL web server on Qualys. A quick fun fact: did you know the A+ and A rating are in fact the same?
On the 4th October 2021, the social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage, affecting not only Facebook, but also Instagram and WhatsApp.
If you want the configurations to differ slightly from the hardware to virtual appliance, such as changing IP's, speak to our support team so they can best advise.