Currently, there are various flavours of SSL/TLS in use across Kent, with differing cipher strengths. At the moment, we have some systems on TLSv1.2 only, … Read more

“Connecting things isn’t so different to connecting people …” In a conversation I had recently, the privacy issue of ‘Alexa’ came up (other models available … Read more

We’ve been trialing the Azure MFA on-premises service for a while and have had a very annoying issue whereby some users in some browsers are … Read more

We all rely heavily on some unseen infrastructure to make our pretty green padlocks work so we can trust that we’re really talking to our … Read more

We noticed a perl script which was updated upstream started failing on RHEL6 (v5.10.1) but was fine on RHEL7 (v5.16.3). The author had refactored the … Read more

Visualising how services and systems interconnect can be very tricky to represent in a meaningful way. As part of our IS TechTalk series, I delivered … Read more

If, like me, you have frequent jobs in your FIM (or MIM!) instance then the Operations tab can get a bit unwieldy and spotting issues … Read more

Amazingly we have just detected a virus from 1992 on one of our computers. I am surprised that it is still in circulation and also … Read more

You may have seen the recent news stories about the DROWN vulnerability. This is just a quick note to let you know that as far … Read more

With the log file analysis program Splunk, we are now able to manage the log files produced by RPZ and respond more quickly to those … Read more