Latest News from Glenn Brunette

New OpenSolaris VPC Gateway Tool

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:45:00 EST

Even more interesting would be if I could create and access a VPC from OpenSolaris running inside of VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro! That way, I could have an on-demand virtual data center in the Cloud that I could access from anywhere! It was from this concept, that I reached out to Dan McDonald and Dileep Kumar. Forming this virtual team, we applied our respective skills to this challenge. As things started to heat up, we pulled in Sebastien Roy and Sowmini Varadhan who provided invaluable support and architectural guidance without which we would still be in troubleshooting hell. (Thank you guys!) So, where do things stand? (Drum roll, please!)

UPDATE: OpenSolaris ISC Construction Kit v1.3

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:15:42 EST

Update: Recent Cloud Security Happenings

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:31:59 EST

NEW: Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive Presentation

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:36:40 EST

Immutable Service Containers @ Amazon EC2

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:10:00 EST

Just in time for the OpenSolaris Developer Conference, we were able to publish new Immutable Service Containers images directly to the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. Previously, I talked about creating ISCs using our security enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMIs. Today, I am happy to announce that we have taken the next logical step by making available AMIs that fully incorporate the ISC changes.

Immutable Service Containers @ OSDevCon

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:52:00 EST

Immutable Service Containers on Amazon EC2

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Back in June, we released the very first security hardened virtual machine images for the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. These original images were based upon the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release and were configured in accordance with the guidelines published by Sun the Center for Internet Security. Since its initial release, we have provided an update to offer this image in the European Region. In August, we took another step forward with the release of a security-enhanced image based upon the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release.

Cloud Security Summit on September 30!

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:29:56 EDT

First things first. I want to offer a big "T

Security Enhanced OpenSolaris Drupal Stack on EC2

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Over the last few months, I have had a number of postings that have talked about security enhanced virtual machine images that we have made available on Amazon Web Services. The goal behind this work was to look at how we could improve baseline security in both virtualized and Cloud Computing computing environments by pre-integrating industry accepted recommended security settings. Organizations leveraging our work would have fewer security steps to undertake as our images were configured to be compliant with the recommendations published by the Center for Internet Security as part of their Solaris Benchmark (adapted for OpenSolaris).

Cloud Security Webinar on Tuesday!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:30:00 EDT

NEW: Immutable Service Container Podcast

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:59:33 EDT

NEW: Security Enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 on Amazon EC2

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:46:00 EDT

It is with great pleasure that I can announce the availability of secur

Encrypted ZFS using Amazon EBS and OpenSolaris 2009.06

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:10:55 EDT

Immutable Service Containers Updates

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:26:28 EDT

NEW: OpenSolaris Immutable Service Containers

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:06:25 EDT

NEW: Encrypted ZFS Backups to the Cloud v0.3

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:20:38 EDT

Building upon the read more

NEW: Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive Presentation

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:38:23 EDT

Encrypted Scratch Space in OpenSolaris 2009.06

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:14:22 EDT

Last week, I announced the availability of

UPDATE: Free Security Hardened Virtual Machine Image

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:46:40 EDT

Just a few days ago, I read more

Impacting Solaris 10 Security Guidance

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:25:36 EDT

NEW: Cloud Safety Box v0.4

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:14:44 EDT

Today, I am happy to announce the read more

Encrypted Swap in OpenSolaris 2009.06

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:56:00 EDT

Back in December 2008, LOFI encryption support was added to Solaris Nevada

Cloud Security from Sun's CommunityOne

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:30:00 EDT

As we come to the close of yet another week, I am reminded that this week was different. Unlike most weeks, I was actually off from work, recovering from surgery, and yet at the same time, several of my projects were living lives of their own at CommunityOne West and Java One.

Free Security Hardened Virtual Machine Image

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Perhaps I am a bit sensitive to the topic of security, but I could not let a "first" go by without comment. Back in 1999 and 2000, Sun was the...

Accepted @ Cloud Computing Expo West

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:18:42 EDT

Back in March, I had the pleasure of presenting at Cloud Computing Expo (East) in New York City. The topic of my tal

Cloud Safety Box

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:23:58 EDT

Yesterday, I wrote about the

Saving Encrypted ZFS Snapshots to the Cloud

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:14:56 EDT

Are you an OpenSolaris user? Do you use read more

NEW: Solaris Package Companion v0.9

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:33:10 EDT

Today, I am proud to announce the release of read more

Solaris Security Chat in SecondLife

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:50:12 EST

Virtual Glenn is a pretty strange concept, but for those who can move past it, check this out! This is a picture of my SecondLife avat

Amazon S3 Silent Data Corruption

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:21:19 EST

While catching up on my reading, I came across an read more

Security Recommendations for IaaS Providers

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:20:00 EST

Abstract

While under intense interest in the industry today, Cloud Computing (Cloud) will not be able t

mod_privileges for Apache HTTPD

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:02:19 EST

Special thanks to Matt Ingenthron

NEW: Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive Presentation

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:12:16 EST

So what's new?

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:45:05 EDT

Previously, I promised to do an update since it had been su

2008 SIA Award: Sun Systemic Security

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:53:01 EDT

I was a little hesitant to write about this as I did not want it to come across as self-promotion, but in the end I felt that it was important for me to say something on behalf of my team. In July 2008, my team and I were awarded with one of the highest

NEW: Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive Presentation

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:18:16 EDT

NEW: Solaris Package Companion v0.8.1 / Testing Tool v0.1

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:56:56 EDT

On the heels of the read more

NEW: Solaris Package Companion v0.8

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:46:10 EDT

Wow, has time passed since my last posting. I promise to do a quick update soon as a lot has

HEADSUP: Solaris 10 Security Best Practices

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:48:13 EST

World's Youngest Sun Ray on Solaris Nevada User

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:48:54 EST

Well, I can hardly believe that three years has passed since the

Top 5 Solaris 10 Security Features You Should Be Using

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:38:28 EST

UPDATED: Solaris - Now With More Fuzz

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:43:11 EST

Every six mon

Redshift, Cell Phones and Sun

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:52:42 EST

On Monday, December 24th, 2007, Jonathan said:

Christmas Day is a day of massively high load for Sun's customers across
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NEW: Hack-Fu - Deconstructing the Security Capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:42:58 EST

NEW: Solaris Package Companion v0.7

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:42:30 EDT

This one must have slipped my mind. Please accept my apologies. Back in September (2007), I

NEW: Solaris 10 Set-ID and World Writable Overview

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:04:09 EDT

Various organizations have often asked for more detail regarding the set-uid, se

NEW: Solaris 10 Security Best Practices

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:52:05 EDT

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5x20s: A Security Geeks Point of View

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:28:36 EDT

What an exciting day! Today, Sun has officially launches t

Brief Vacation in Niagara Falls

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:13:10 EDT

Solaris Fingerprint Companion v0.5

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:04:22 EDT

For some reason, the links to things on SunSolve like the read more