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Security for your virtual machines: what is KMIP?

Luca Dell'Oca, January 31, 2017January 28, 2017

The latest generation of the main hypervisors has shown, among other things, a renewed and increased focus on security, with the most visible feature being VM encryption. It’s amazing to see how both VMware vSphere 6.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, both released in the same year, introduced this feature at the same time. But it’s less of a surprise if you think about all the security issues that IT admins and users are facing lately, with things like ransomware, cryptolocker and other threads.
In this first of a series of posts, we’ll look at the different solutions and some deep dive into the used technologies, and how operations like backups are impacted. In this first post, let’s talk about KMIP.

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SSL protection and its legacy problems, or is it greed and laziness?

Luca Dell'Oca, January 12, 2016January 12, 2016

I started to blog when I was already working on virtualization technologies, but before this I was a security consultant, and I still hold my CISSP certification. So, for once I’m writing something about security more than virtualization, because this news about SSL totally deserves an article. TLS is hard……

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Cloud Computing: urban legends and how to not-sell it

Luca Dell'Oca, July 25, 2013July 24, 2013

Last tuesday I attended the Cloud Communities Day event in Milan, hosted by EuroCloud Italia. Its goal,fully successful, was to put let the public discover and put into contact with each other the various User Communities working on Cloud Computing: in addition to some of us representing the Italian VMware User Group, there…

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Cloud Computing: leggende metropolitane e come non-venderlo

Luca Dell'Oca, July 25, 2013August 25, 2019

Martedì scorso ho partecipato al Cloud Communities Day a Milano, organizzato da EuroCloud Italia. Lo scopo, pienamente riuscito, era di far conoscere al pubblico e mettere in contatto tra di loro le varie User Communities che lavorano sul Cloud Computing: oltre ad alcuni di noi in rappresentanza del VMware User…

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Skype, suspended accounts, and its stupid security rules

Luca Dell'Oca, March 5, 2013February 26, 2013

Few weeks ago I turned on Skype after a few weeks of time, and I found a “surprise”: your skype account has been suspended for security reasons. Argh, What could have happened? I usually use somewhat complex password in all my various accounts on the internet, and as far as possible…

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