Life in the VPN Lane

VPNs serve a great purpose as a secure access medium for administrators and road warriors. Administrators should by default use a VPN to access the management plane whether they are on a company’s LAN “trusted zone” or outside of it “the internet”. A normal user typically has trusted access from the LAN to company systems but not from the outside. Many people use port forwarding or other rules on a firewall to provide this type of access to these users from the outside. This is insecure as firewalls are nothing more than guards asleep at the gate. It is way better for these users to VPN into these systems using the typical road warrior configuration.

Read the article over at Medium: Life in the VPN Lane

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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