Glenn Brunette

IMG_1246.JPG Originally uploaded by gbrunett It was time for a little mini-vacation. For a few days last week, my family and I traveled to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. We had an excellent trip and with views such as these, you can easily see why! What a beautiful place to take in a wonder of nature. Not only that, but it was a great excuse to try out my new camera. *grin* I have a few other pictures that I will upload soon that were taken closer to home. Gotta get back to work! Take care, Glenn Technorati Tag: Niagara Falls Ontario ... (more)

NEW: Hack-Fu - Deconstructing the Security Capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS

For the Sun CEC 2007 conference this year, I revamped my originalPractical Solaris 10 Security presentation that I had originally mentioned here. The new version of the presentation is titled Hack-Fu - Deconstructing the Security Capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS. While the title is a little more "catchy", the real change is that the presentation was enhanced to provide a more complete practical demonstration of Solaris 10 security capabilities. The presentation is structured from the viewpoint of a potential attacker examining the system from the network. As each new capabili... (more)

Top 5 Solaris 10 Security Features You Should Be Using

Inspired by Solaris 10 winning a spot on the InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year Award list, I decided to write up a list of my own. I hope you forgive this little bit of cheerleading, but I just could not help myself... The Top 5 Solaris 10 Security Features You Should Be Using! This list is intended to highlight five security controls found in the Solaris 10 OS that will offer the most direct and immediate value to you and your organization. I stopped the list at five to simply provide a representative list, but you can see from this deep dive presentation that Solaris has... (more)

Security Recommendations for IaaS Providers

Abstract While under intense interest in the industry today, Cloud Computing (Cloud) will not be able to realize its full potential without strong security assurances offered by Cloud providers.  The type of security controls and the level of assurance required will vary by Cloud layer (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and also by the degree to which the Cloud is shared (public, private, hybrid) and interconnected with other services.  The goal of this article is to highlight a few security recommendations that apply to IaaS Cloud architectures. Definitions Before we begin, a few definitions a... (more)

Saving Encrypted ZFS Snapshots to the Cloud

Are you an OpenSolaris user? Do you use ZFS? Have you tried the ZFS Automatic Snapshot service? If so, you might be interested in a new tool that I just published over at Project Kenai that enables you to encrypt and store ZFS snapshots to either the Sun Cloud Storage Service (Employees Only at the moment) or Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). You can find all of the details, documentation and download instructions (as well as a Mercurial gate) at the ZFS Encrypted Backup to S3 project page. So, please give it a try and let us know what you think! Technorati Tag: OpenSolaris ... (more)