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Oracle RAC Overview Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is a shared cache clustered database architecture that utilizes Oracle Grid Infrastructure to enable the sharing of server and storage resources. Automatic, instantaneous failover to other nodes, and therefore enables an extremely high degree of scalability, availability, and performance. Originally focused on providing improved database services, Oracle RAC has evolved over the years and is now based on...

This article highlights key challenges associated with offering cyber range training using AWS. It also presents Ravello cybersecurity lab as a way to run cyber ranges for training on public cloud (AWS & Google cloud) to overcome these challenges.   What are cyber rangesCyber range is a realistic representation of infrastructure, network, tools & threat to carry out live-fire attacks and disruptive effects to support testing, training, mission rehearsal exercises. These are...

Author: Matt Conran   Matt Conran is a Network Architect based out of Ireland and a prolific blogger at Network Insight. In his spare time he writes on topics ranging from SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, OpenStack, Cloud, Automation and Programming.   Colocation with third-party network elements/servers in demilitarized zone (DMZ) is an issue for security architects and puts pressure on network security architecture. How do we connect third party equipment to inhouse security appliances in a...

Author: Matt Conran Matt Conran is a Network Architect based out of Ireland and a prolific blogger at Network Insight. In his spare time he writes on topics ranging from SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, OpenStack, Cloud, Automation and Programming. Financial institutions and enterprises require flexible network security architecture to accommodate external network devices/servers in their DC/colo facilities. This article provides a way to design and implement such a network security...

A productive training process is key to the success of new products (from internal training to channel partners and customers). Since ILT also involves a substantial investment, it isn’t surprising that more and more training organizations are seeking to understand instructor led training best practices - essentially - what they can do to maximize the effectiveness of their training sessions. At Ravello we believe that the essentials are: easily provisioned and deployed...

Author: Clarence Chio   Clarence is a Security Research Engineer at Shape Security, working on the system that tackles malicious bot intrusion from the angle of big data analysis. Clarence has presented independent research on Machine Learning and Security at Information Security conferences in several countries, and is also the organizer of the “Data Mining for Cyber Security” meetup group in the SF Bay Area.     Have you ever used an unsecured public wifi connection and wondered...

Author: Clarence Chio Clarence is a Security Research Engineer at Shape Security, working on the system that tackles malicious bot intrusion from the angle of big data analysis. Clarence has presented independent research on Machine Learning and Security at Information Security conferences in several countries, and is also the organizer of the “Data Mining for Cyber Security” meetup group in the SF Bay Area.   In the previous post in the pentest on AWS and Google series, we set...

Author: Clarence Chio   Clarence is a Security Research Engineer at Shape Security, working on the system that tackles malicious bot intrusion from the angle of big data analysis. Clarence has presented independent research on Machine Learning and Security at Information Security conferences in several countries, and is also the organizer of the “Data Mining for Cyber Security” meetup group in the SF Bay Area. This next post in the network penetration testing lab series will get...

Author: Clarence Chio   Clarence is a Security Research Engineer at Shape Security, working on the system that tackles malicious bot intrusion from the angle of big data analysis. Clarence has presented independent research on Machine Learning and Security at Information Security conferences in several countries, and is also the organizer of the “Data Mining for Cyber Security” meetup group in the SF Bay Area. This blog series discusses how to set up a network...