Producing great software is only half the battle--or more like 1/3 of the battle. Software is worthless until it gets in the hands of the people that want to use it. To do that, though, isn’t simple.
Nate Lewis | | File Transfer | Security
Privacy is something that every organization needs to take seriously. When customers and clients trust an organization with their private information, that trust needs to be respected. As with healthcare, the insurance industry needs to adhere to significant regulation.
Dan Franciscus | | Automation | IT Insights
In this article, I will show how to configure a Vagrant box to run PowerShell.
Prateek Singh | | Automation | Cloud | IT Insights
In this article, we'll take a look at how Python can be used by System Administrators to automate the management of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure. You'll learn how to set up the Python scripting environment for first use, and how to...
Kevin Conklin | | File Transfer | Security
Nearly a million servers around the world still run the unsecure legacy FTP protocol and are actually configured for ‘anonymous’ access. Not good.
With OpenSSH, you can remote into any operating system from any operating system. This is a wonderful thing!
FIPS 140-2 is a requirements document that sets the minimum strength level for data encryption used in Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) federal operating environments. But its influence goes far beyond this significant but delimited area.
Network Security has multiple concepts. One such model is the Before-During-After concept, which I will break out into different phases. Specific to incident and problem management in IT, this methodology plays an important role for IT teams.
Dan Franciscus | | IT Insights
In this article, I will dive into a Chocolatey package to show the important components.
Dan Franciscus | | Automation | IT Insights
There are times when you have a complex script that you just need to get into configuration management. Re-writing scripts into manifests is time-consuming, no doubt about it. In this article, I will show how to run PowerShell scripts from Puppet.
One of the excellent features of the new MOVEit Transfer 2018 product is the introduction of RESTful (REST) APIs. If you're not familiar with REST APIs, it boils down to an industry-standard way of accessing applications or services over HTTP/S.
Dan Franciscus | | Automation | Cloud | IT Insights
The majority of organizations are not going to use one specific provider to host their systems. Whether it be VMware on-premises, Azure in the cloud, AWS, or Hyper-V, most will be operating on more than one.
For the purposes of this post, we are concerned with two relevant options, namely File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Managed File Transfer (MFT). The second, being managed, obviously offers more features than a standard file transfer solution. But, which solution is best...
Jeff Edwards | | Automation | Cloud | IT Insights
One of the new features of Ipswitch's MOVEit Automation 2018 product is the introduction of REST APIs. In this video from Ipswitch contributor Adam Betram, we'll cover how to use PowerShell to first authenticate to a MOVEit Automation server and then we'll cover how to...
Basic details of your computer like operating system and version, memory, network adapter and hard drive are never stored in one central location.
Dan Franciscus | | IT Insights
One “free” solution for deploying Chocolatey packages remotely is PowerShell. Using PowerShell remoting techniques, software can be deployed in parallel on many different machines at once. In this article, I will demonstrate this.
Adam Bertram | | Security
Attackers wanting to steal your information online are some of the most creative people alive. It’s amazing how many ways they can come up with to steal your information. One of those ways is through a technique called cross-site scripting or XSS for short.
In this article, we will discuss how to get around the infamous double-hop problem in PowerShell. It's easier than you think.
Nate Lewis | | Security
We’re living in the age of information. In both the world of the enterprise and in our own personal lives, we expect speed first and foremost. The exchange of data between customers, employees, and partners is become a critical component of business operations. Shadow IT...
In this article, we provide three tips to help you become more efficient with PowerShell commands. We will specifically cover how to streamline your efforts in searching for text inside of strings, transforming MSQL data into both XML and JSON, and building XML schemas.
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