Beside providing a “surgical strike” response to an attack, network configuration management systems enable easy evaluation of collateral impact. For example, if the primary option is to block a ...

I was proudly wearing one of my Salt Stack shirts the other day when my daughter asked me, "What is Salt Stack?" I began by explaining the problem it solved. If you have multiple servers and want to ...

(1) In a network, a system for gathering current configuration information from all nodes in a LAN. (2) In software development, a system for keeping track of large projects. Although version control, ...

The frenzy of activity triggered by a network attack requires a new approach to threat management, one that makes the network and its resources a partner in its own defense and allows security and ...

CFEngine is similar to many popular configuration management utilities (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt) that are being used by organizations deploying cloud infrastructures. CFEngine is really ...