NetGate has announced a new version of its entry point gateway appliance. The SG-1100 has 5 times the performance of the previous SG-1000 micro firewall appliance. Marvell's EspressoBIN platform provides…
One step beyond VMware 6.5U1
VMware has updated their ESXi platform again, so we're now one step beyond the 6.5U1 upgrade. It comprises mostly with VSAN improvements and a set of patches for kernel forking…
SDxCentral: Physical SD-WAN appliances aren’t going anywhere
SDxCentral has a piece on the current state of SD-WAN appliances. It distinguishes the three different forms SD-WAN can take (or at least for the purposes of their article). They…
Explaining why the VMware update to v6.5U1 didn’t work
If you're looking previous posts on VMware updates on CoherentLight, you'll notice that the I had some problems upgrading to VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 1. Doing some further digging, it…
Now we have SiLK, let’s get it set up..
So Installation of SiLK from the ground up on Centos 7 is only part of the story. You need to configure it to actually collect some data, and then to…
Keeping VMware ESXi Updated: 6.5 Update 1
So you might have followed my post about upgrading to VMware 6.5 from 5.5U3 using the console. It's been a while since then, and those folks over at VMware have…
IPv6 Security Myths
I've been reading an article on Linux.com on various IPv6 security myths. IPv6 was originally proposed with several in-built security features. Expectations have expanded over time to IPv6 to be…
MDSec produce PowerShell delivery via DNS
Remember a few months ago, I posted a piece via Engadget about Cisco's Talos team finding bot control traffic in DNS data. Now MDSec have produced and published a proof…