Latest News from Glenn Brunette

Self-Preservation

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:35:00 EDT

This is a posting intended to signal that this is a blog that should be migrated to the blogs.oracle.com platform and not killed off during the transition

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!)

NEW: OpenSolaris VPC Gateway Tool v0.1

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:03:09 EST

UPDATE: OpenSolaris ISC Construction Kit v1.3

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:15:42 EST

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

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

NEW: Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive Presentation

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:36:40 EST

Immutable Service Containers @ Amazon EC2

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:10:43 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 12:52:31 EST

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.

Immutable Service Containers on Amazon EC2

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:07:13 EDT

Cloud Security Summit on September 30!

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:29:56 EDT

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

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).

NEW: Security Enhanced OpenSolaris Drupal Stack on EC2

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Cloud Security Webinar on Tuesday!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:30:00 EDT

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: 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

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

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

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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Cloud Security from Sun's CommunityOne

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:05:47 EDT

As we come to the close of yet another week, I

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...

Free Security Hardened Virtual Machine Image

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:15:17 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