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4 Steps Towards Small Business Network Security
So you just started a business. You might even have a few team members, and you’re thrilled — you’re finally following your dream in a very real way. You know from your last job that you need to protect your data; you need a security plan of some kind. But how does a small business network security plan differ from the plan of a big corporation?
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What is SAML?
What is SAML? SAML, which stands for Security Assertion Markup Language, is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider and a service provider.
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Meet the Author of Multiple OpenVPN Books
My name is Jan Just Keijser — otherwise known as JJK in OpenVPN circles. I am an IT professional with about 25 years of experience, and I've been using OpenVPN for nearly 16 years now. I currently work as a Software Engineer at Nikhef, a physics research lab in Amsterdam. I work on high performance and high throughput computing. I have also
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DIY MFA Setup | Community Edition
We’re going to use oathtool for our DIY setup on a FreeBSD host. These steps should be nearly identical on a Linux host, however. We need to create a file with our users and secrets. These secrets are the same secrets your users will import into their MFA application (OTP Auth, Google Authenticator, Okta Verify, etc.).
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OpenVPN MFA Setup | Community Edition
For this demonstration, the important parts are going to be the MFA challenge response mechanisms.
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Multi-Factor Authentication with OpenVPN | Community Edition
With the multitude of data breaches of large databases exposing user credentials over the past several years, multi-factor/two-factor (MFA/2FA, referred to as MFA throughout the remainder) authentication deployment is on the rise.
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What Is OpenVPN? | An Explanation of Community Edition vs. Access Server
The OpenVPN project was founded in 2001 by James Yonan. Yonan was traveling through Central Asia, and in order to work, he had to connect remotely to his office. However, connecting through servers in countries with untrustworthy security practices gave Yonan concern about his online safety. Out of every problem comes a solution — that's when
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COVID-19 Fast Tracks Virtualization — OpenVPN Study Reveals Remote Work is the Future
There’s no doubt COVID-19 set the remote work revolution on a fast track. And on that fast track, VPNs to work from home soared to new heights with no signs of it slowing down. Companies had no choice but to close up shop and send their workers home, and just as quickly had to figure out how to secure that workforce.
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What Is RDP?
COVID-19 has forced many employees, including IT teams, to work from home. But questions continue to come up over whether the surge in remote working is prioritizing information security. Many businesses already use remote desktop protocol (RDP) to access their systems and servers remotely. RDP enables IT departments to remotely and efficiently
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Introducing OpenVPN 3 Linux Release (Beta)
The new beta release of the OpenVPN 3 Linux client introduces a new integration feature for Amazon AWS. It is now more accessible for an entire Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Amazon to share the use of a VPN tunnel configured on a single EC2 instance.
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