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By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure, Security

On December 17, 2019, Citrix released a critical advisory regarding a vulnerability that allows for remote code execution: CVE-2019-19781 - Vulnerability in Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway (https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX267027). The vulnerability exploits a directory traversal attack on the /vpn directory on the NetScaler. It allows for remote execution of code under the user nobody. Gotham previously alerted customers to this vulnerability. Citrix plans to release a perma... read more.

• January 15, 2020

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure, Security

Perhaps one of the most popular features of Exchange is the ability to connect Outlook running on a PC to Exchange over the Internet when outside the corporate network without the need to establish a VPN connection. This feature was introduced with Exchange 2003 and is called Outlook Anywhere. Of course, convenience always comes at a price: once enabled, Outlook Anywhere allows anyone with Outlook to connect to Exchange from any PC regardless of who owns it. Many organizations want or need to restrict Outlo... read more.

• January 10, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 12/23 Cloud Mobility using Nutanix Move (via Nutanix) Available to all Nutanix customers, Move 3.4 will support moving VMs back and forth between Nutanix AHV and AWS. With this capability, you can move your running applications across completely different infrastructure stacks/clouds with very minimal downtime and zero manual efforts. http://bit.ly/2Q8wXdK Announcing the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR (via Citrix) The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 Long-Term Service Release... read more.

• January 10, 2020

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure, Virtualization

Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines chat, audio calling, video conferencing, file storage, and application integration. It is a replacement for Skype for Business, which will reach end of life in July 2021. It comes with a company's Office 365 subscription, depending on your licensing plan, and can integrate with non-Microsoft products. The following Office 365 subscription licensing plans enable users for Teams: Image via Microsoft. By hosting Micros... read more.

• December 23, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 12/16 The Urgent Need for Network Security It’s clear that state-of-the-art firewall technology has reached new pinnacles of real-time threat intelligence and security, working to protect entire enterprises including data center, mobile, endpoint, cloud and IoT. http://bit.ly/2LZHczD Rubrik Intelligent Data Tiering Helps Customers Optimize Microsoft Azure Storage Consumption The intelligence and logic that is built into Rubrik’s Instant Tiering and Smart Tiering technologies will hel... read more.

• December 20, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 12/2 Build an Enterprise-grade Hybrid Cloud with Pure on AWS Pure and AWS got together to help provide enterprises with a consistent data layer across their on-premises and cloud environments. This consistent data layer with consistent data services and APIs is now possible with Pure Storage Cloud Data Services. http://bit.ly/2Y6TZVO SOC Efficiency Improving Thanks to SOAR SOAR solutions help security analysts with the complete visibility of the cyber campaign delivered as a unified dashboard. R... read more.

• December 13, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 11/18 Citrix named a Leader in Unified Endpoint Management Citrix has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2019 report. Over the past couple of years, we have specifically focused on improving employee experience by working directly with customers to develop a deep understanding of the challenges employees face. http://bit.ly/2CUvxgK The Future of Load Balancing Rests on Data Those requests are not always equal in terms of execution because data. That... read more.

• November 22, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 11/11 Proofpoint Q3 2019 Threat Report — Emotet’s return, RATs reign supreme, and more 15% of malicious payloads were remote access Trojans and 45% were banking Trojans, up from 6% and 23% in Q2 2019, respectively. http://bit.ly/2rqZ5js US Govt Asks Users to Be Wary of Holiday Scams and Malware "As this holiday season approaches, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users to be aware of potential holiday scams and malicious cyber campaigns, particula... read more.

• November 15, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 11/4 Proofpoint acquires insider threat intelligence firm ObserveIT in $225 million deal ObserveIT provides solutions for real-time enterprise network management, alerts when suspicious behavior is detected, and also assists firms in cybersecurity-related legal compliance. https://zd.net/2WDejO2 Coming Soon: New NetApp integrations Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2 brings brand new DR possibilities – including the ability to achieve real DR from backups – with extreme operational ef... read more.

• November 08, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 10/28 Cisco Research Shows IT Eager to Adopt Artificial Intelligence, Intent-based Networking IT leaders expect new wireless technologies, IoT and AI-enabled operations, threat detection and remediation to have the biggest impact on their network strategy and design over the next five years. http://bit.ly/2qRrAXp PCI DSS Updates The PCI DSS Council recently announced that a new standard for commercial off the shelf (COTS) mobile devices, PCI Contactless Payments on COTS (CPoC™) mobile devi... read more.

• November 01, 2019