Recent Posts by Jan Hendrik Mangold

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Secure Global Desktop 5.6, providing a new HTML5 client, simpler installation and easier maintenance in the cloud and on premises. Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) is a web-based solution that allows users to remotely access data and applications in a data center or the cloud. It provides administrators with a single pane of glass to manage secure access to resources with a completely air-gapped, highly secure connection...

The current version of Oracle Secure Global Desktop 5.50.093 requires Oracle Linux 7.6+ as the only supported installation platform. Previous versions of Oracle Secure Global Desktop provided binaries to also install on Solaris x86 and SPARC. The last version of Oracle Secure Global Desktop to support Solaris x86 and SPARC as installation platform is 5.40.935 which is out of premier support by the end of April 2020. It is important to note that Oracle Secure Global Desktop...

We are pleased to announce the release of the January Patch Set Update for Oracle Secure Global Desktop version 5.4 Patch 6 and 5.50.089 (Update 1). These patches contain important security fixes and enhancements for the product. To install the Secure Global Desktop 5.4 patch, download the architecture specific patch from My Oracle Support. Stop the Secure Global Desktop service and use the tarantella patch add and gateway patch add commands to apply the patches. Starting...

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Secure Global Desktop 5.5, providing simpler installation and easier maintenance in the cloud and on premises. Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) is a web-based solution that allows users to remotely access data and applications in a data center or the cloud. It provides administrators with a single pane of glass to manage secure access to resources with a completely air-gapped, highly secure connection between the client...

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) with Oracle Linux on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. With Oracle Secure Global Desktop, you can securely and remotely access applications and data in the cloud through a web browser. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) now provides ready access to this SGD image for fast and easy deployment using the embedded Marketplace in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You can launch the solution directly from the...

We are happy to announce the release of Oracle Secure Global Desktop (Oracle SGD) 5.4. Oracle SGD is a secure remote access solution for cloud-hosted enterprise applications and hosted desktops running on Oracle Linux and other Linux distributions, Oracle Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and mainframe servers. What's New: This new release of Oracle SGD comes with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Highlights include: Java-less client launch Previous versions of SGD used...

New Security and JVM Patches Now Available We have released an important Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) in parallel with Oracle's October 2017 CPU, 5.3p2. PSUs are maintenance patch roll-ups, and include critical security and stability fixes for identified maintenance platforms. The following reference documentation has been updated in parallel with these releases, and includes detailed information regarding the content of these updates, as well...

I have created a Proof of Concept (POC) how to use the Python SDK to manage access to VM serial consoles in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This POC currently is implemented by creating an Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) application that launches a python script on the SGD server. Problem Statement There is a feature for VM shapes provisioned in OCI that allows to create a connection to the serial console of the VM to troubleshoot issues that might have occurred when...

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described an increasing danger of companies exposing sensitive information after a move to the cloud. Services and data that used to live in tightly controlled data centers on a companies premises, often not even accessible from the open internet, have been migrated into cloud-hosted environments. Along the way, configuration mistakes might have been made, or third parties were given access to facilitate the transition. While cloud...