security
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Security
Can Ransomware Affect an ESXi host?
A particular Reddit thread caught my attention that was posted to Twitter as of last night. The title of the thread is “Witnessed my first ESXi ransomware. Crypts VMs at datastore level“. It basically describes a nightmare scenario involving a…
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Security
Easy Windows Server Just In Time Administration JIT
One of the core pillars of good security with Windows Server is role-based access and least privilege access to resources in your environment. One of the newer buzzwords with security related to your Windows Server environment is called Just in…
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NSX-T
Enable VMware NSX-T 3.0 Distributed IDS Configuration
One of the great new features of VMware NSX-T 3.0 is the distributed IDS capabilities that it offers now as part of the platform. In the same way that NSX changed the game with firewalling with the distributed firewall, the…
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vSphere 7
VMware vSphere 7 Security Features and Improvements
One of the many areas that have been majorly improved with vSphere has been the enhancements in security with the platform. VMware vSphere 7 represents the most secure vSphere release to date with many new features and capabilities on a…
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Horizon View
VMware Unified Access Gateway UAG 3.8 Installation and Configuration
Considering the security of your end user computing environment that is accessed via remote connections is extremely important. When building out how your clients are going to access a VMware Horizon environment, you want to enable secure access. VMware has…
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Security
CIS Critical Security Controls VMware Scan with Runecast 4.1
Having the right tools to implement security and security best practices in your VMware vSphere environment is critical to a successful security posture. The recent release of Runecast 4.1 adds an additional powerful compliance check called the CIS Benchmark. What…
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ActiveDirectory
Active Directory LDAP Channel Binding Patch Coming in March
Update – It appears that Microsoft will not be changing the defaults with the rollouts in March https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/01/microsoft-ldap-vsphere-channel-binding-signing-adv190023.html Have you heard about the change coming to the way connections will be made by default to Active Directory? Microsoft is has…
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Security
Automate CurveBall Crypt32.dll Patching
With the recent developments with CurveBall Crypt32.dll, everyone is no doubt thinking about patching their Windows environments and doing this quickly. Even if you have WSUS in play, you may want to do something a little more proactive on your…
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Security
Download CurveBall Crypt32.dll Patch Tuesday Security Rollup
Update 1.16.2020 – New name coined “CurveBall” for the Crypt32.dll vulnerability. Update 1.15.2020 – It appears that only Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 are affected. However, there is another RDS bug that is equally bad that affects older Windows…
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Security
Crypt32.dll Vulnerability Affects Hyper-V and Windows Operating Systems
Update 1.15.2020 – It appears that only Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 are affected. Also, see my post here detailing the patch hyperlinks: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/01/download-crypt32-dll-patch-tuesday-security-rollup/ If you are running Windows Server Hyper-V to power your production virtual environments as well…
