Log4j Security Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-44228 – Mitigation Strategies for Tanzu Application Services Operators

Thefluffyadmin cloud-native, Security, vexpert, vmware December 15, 2021

This post was created by the VMware Tanzu Vanguard community. (https://tanzu.vmware.com/vanguard) This community is a small group of VMware Tanzu users, who came over from the Pivotal community, and represent some of VMware's largest and coolest TAS (Tanzu Application Services) and TKGI (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated) customers and partners. This community is lead by the
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I spoke on the Virtual Stack podcast, episode 5, about the #NSX Distributed firewall #vexpert

Thefluffyadmin Career, Training and Personal Development, NSX, Podcasts, Security, vmware October 4, 2018

On the heels of my VNSTechcon session, today I had a great time talking to Emre Girici on his podcast about the same topic: NSX Distributed firewall. This talk has an introductory flavor to the topic of Micro-segmentation with NSX, and I hope to zoon in further on it in future conversations with Emre. Embedded above,
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#vNSTechcon a great success. Video of my session and slides on #NSX #microsegmentation in practice #vexpert

Thefluffyadmin Career, Training and Personal Development, NSX, Security, vexpert, vmware, vnstechcon September 27, 2018

I had the great privilege of being part of the team that organised the first dutch vNSTechcon. (Networking and Security technical conference) Together with our sister event, the vMATechcon (Management and Automation), combined with great help from VMware and a kick-ass location, we had 2 really great days of excellent content and networking. We had
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1st Nov. I will be speaking on #NSX #micro-segmentation in practice at the Infosecurity Expo #vexpert

Thefluffyadmin Career, Training and Personal Development, Security, vmware October 26, 2017

1st of November at 13:00 I will be speaking at the SecurityInfo / Data & Cloud Expo about our experiences with NSX micro-segmentation https://www.infosecurity.nl/seminar/X103 https://www.dncexpo.nl/seminar/X103 In this 45 min talk I will discuss the details of managing micro-segmentation with the VMware NSX Distributed Firewall function. Does it live up to the promise, what are the pitfalls
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vCenter rights needed for Docker-Machine vSphere Driver

Thefluffyadmin cloud-native, Docker, Security, vmware April 30, 2017

There are many ways to quickly provision docker hosts to cloud infrastructures. Dockers own native way is to use docker-machine. Being a vSphere admin I was of course interested in the VMware vSphere driver for docker-machine. The starting resources for this are: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/vsphere/ https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/how-to-use-docker-machine-in-conjunction-with-vsphere-driver/ While I got this working, one of the issues I struggled
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