More and More AWS Local Zones As announcements from the 2020 AWS re:Invent continue to roll out, one of the earlier announcements we were excited about was the promise of increased local zones in...
News Roundup: Week of Nov 30, 2020
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OpenVPN 2.5 Windows MSI Parameters for Unattended Installations
Since the release of OpenVPN 2.5 the OpenVPN Project has moved it’s installer from an EXE (executable file) to the more modern MSI (windows installation file) method. MSI files have some clear...
News Roundup: Week of November 9, 2020
IBM Cloud Automation and Data Paks A recent article from Fierce Telecom highlights new automation and data capabilities coming to IBM’s cloud software portfolio. These IBM Cloud Pak updates “offer...
IPsec Tutorial with VNS3 – Part 2
Introduction to IPsec and VNS3 This is part 2 of our IPsec with VNS3 tutorial. Check out part one here. In the previous tutorial we not only setup an IPsec connection but also created a Secure Edge...
New VNS3 Firewall Features in VNS3 4.11
The VNS3 Firewall is a wrapper around Linux's “iptables". The VNS3 firewall abstracts away the concept of tables, removing a variable and making the process more user-friendly. Today we'll take a...
The New OpenVPN 2.5 Client
The new OpenVPN 2.5 client brings with it a new adapter type for Microsoft Windows. OpenVPN 2.5 has implemented the WireGaurd Wintun adapter. From the Wintun description: “Wintun is a very simple...
IPsec Tutorials with VNS3: Part 1
Introduction to IPsec and VNS3 IPsec is a way to connect two private networks together over an untrusted network to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN). The internet is the obvious untrusted...
Things I Like About VNS3: Network Interface Auto Discovery and Configuration
Cloud virtual machines, including network appliances like VNS3, can have additional network interfaces added to them dynamically. If you have ever worked on actual computer hardware you will...
Another Think I Like About VNS3: Pricing Model
Cohesive Networks and its Application Security Controller “VNS3” have plotted a course to customer success that was “born in the cloud.” Since VNS3 did not start life as a piece of "metal" we have...
News Roundup: Week of Sep 7, 2020
DOD Doubles Down on Microsoft for JEDI Contract According to an article from Yahoo! Finance, despite continued protest from Amazon Web Services, the US Defense Department “has completed a...
Securely Federating Cloud Services with VNS3
Service Endpoints are a great concept. They allow you to access things like s3 buckets in AWS from within your VPC without sending traffic outside of it. In fact, from a compliance perspective they...
AutoRecovery in the Public Cloud
“Everything fails, all the time.” - Werner Vogels While VNS3 is extremely stable, it is not immune to the underlying hardware and network issues that public cloud vendors experience. VNS3 provides a...