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 »
OSSEC Daily Reports
As with any user of OSSEC, analyzing and working with the data is the key to successfully managing your environment. From a prior post you can see we are monitoring events as they occur which is good for catching serious issues as they occur; however, it is not usually the best way to document what… 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.
PCI Data Security Standards Rock Video
This short animated video provides an overview of the PCI Data Security Standard in a more entertaining way.



