Archive for the “Security” category
Iceland and the New Need for Free Speech and Cryptography
by Jascha on August 5, 2010
The name Wikileaks has become part of the general vernacular ever since their release of the 91k+ documents related to the US war in Afghanistan. But another related topic has only been touched upon as a side note to the (…)
Cloud security: Is it raining in the cloud?
by Jascha on March 6, 2009
SC has a good write up on cloud computing security: Cloud computing, as least as a concept, is being driven largely by economics. It is generally less costly to run applications, add capacity and increase storage in the cloud, rather (…)
Locking Down Access to Scalr Web Interface
by Jascha on March 2, 2009
I wanted to touch briefly on the security concerns for having Scalr accessible via the Internet. If you are running your own install of Scalr this is an important factor before even adding the first farm. For my own sake (…)
OpenVPN Setup
by Jascha on December 1, 2006
I found the setup and configuration of OpenVPN to be very easy and straight forward. Much easier than setting up IPSec for sure. It was as easy as doing a yum install openvpn then editing the configuration file to fit (…)
Monitoring Your Racks for Cheap
by Jascha on October 27, 2006
When we were setting up our locking cabinets at the new data center for my job I was wondering how to actively monitor the security around our cabinets. Being that only myself and the data center staff have keys to (…)
