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.

Good security, not just compliance requirements, encourages IT & Security staff to spend time reviewing security events.  There are many tools available for many security components of your network; this article will focus on host security and host log monitoring using OSSEC and Zabbix.

“HIPAA” is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (August 21), Public Law 104-191, which amended the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986. Also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, the Act includes a section, Title II, entitled Administrative Simplification, requiring: Improved efficiency in health care delivery by standardizing electronic data [...]