Managing Partner, David M. Zendzian, will be giving a short presentation on SSL/TLS protocol, security and configuration issues on Brighttalk tomorrow at 12 EST. SSL is a well designed protocol to ensure communications between two points are secured and that 3rd parties are not able to view the protected communications. As such many applications have… Read more »
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ZZ Servers Managing Partner to speak at #Shmoocon #Firetalks
ZZ Servers Managing Partner, David M. Zendzian (@dmz006) will be presenting How Do You Know Your Colo Isn’t “Inside” Your Cabinet, A Simple Alarm Using Teensy” which is based on a prior blog post.
Server cabinet door alarm
The first step in securing servers is to ensure that they are physically as secure as possible and and then monitored for unauthorized access Many times when setting up servers in a small office or co-location facility many people have their systems in a locking cabinet within a moderately secured physical building. However a determined… Read more »
Vyatta border gateway passthrough filtering
Vyatta routers bring high-quality enterprise routing in an open-source package. Like many projects it was originally designed for small office/home configurations but has grown to enterprise solutions. The current documentation on filtering between zones does not tie everything together well enough to understand zone filtering. This post will walk through a complex filter configuration for a vyatta running as a border gateway and not a small office/home gateway.
Create an SSL certificate with strong, 2048 bit encryption
When creating either a self signed certificate or a certificate request, Kerio MailServer uses 1024 bit encryption. You may however prefer stronger encryption, especially if you are using a signing authority such as GoDaddy, which requires 2048 bit encryption. In this case, you may use the free OpenSSL utility that is available with most Unix… Read more »
CentOS 5.1 Now Available for all VPS packages
I am pleased to announce that ZZ Servers now has CentOS 5.1 available as an option for VPS installation. CentOS or Community Enterprise Operating System is a Linux distribution Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible…. Read more »
