Default installations of the CentOS 7 Linux operating system have the firewalld firewall installed and enabled by default as a security measure, but how can we disable it?
In this quick guide we will show you how to disable both firewalld or iptables in CentOS 7 through the command line.
Confirming whether or not your hardware and firmware support secure boot and encryption keys doesn’t really have anything to do with Windows Server 2016, these features must be supported at lower levels than the operating system. This post will address Microsoft’s 70-744 exam objective “Determine hardware and firmware requirements for secure boot and encryption key functionality”.
Credential Guard is a new feature available in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 that uses virtualization based security to store NTLM and Kerberos secrets in an isolated process.
Without Credential Guard, these secrets are stored in the memory of user accessible processes, making them available to tools such as mimikatz with administrative privileges.
Credential Guard helps protect against this, we’ll be discussing the requirements for setting up Credential Guard here.
In this post I’ll show you how to upgrade PHP 5.6 to 7.1 in CentOS 7 Linux. I performed this process today on this server and wanted to document the problems that I had along the way, along with relevant fixes.
This short guide will show you how to upgrade MariaDB 10.0 to 10.1 in CentOS 7 Linux. We’ll start by modifying the repository file and perform a ‘yum update’. This may fail to automatically update the MariaDB-server package, so we’ll show you how to manually use the mysql_upgrade script to complete the process.
There are many different supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS Linux available for use, so which version of CentOS/RHEL Linux should you be using?
Here we take a look at the differences between the different versions of CentOS and compare them to help you decide on the best version to use.
It is certainly ideal to configure BitLocker with TPM if possible, it may be the case that you do not have TPM available but still want to take advantage of BitLocker’s full disk encryption. While this is not possible by default, it is possible after the modification of some group policy settings, which we’ll cover here in order to allow you to deploy BitLocker without a trusted platform module.