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vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide – public draft out now!

vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide – public draft out now!

It’s finally released: The vSphere 5.0 hardening guide, even tho it’s a draft version (final version somewhere around May). With the new release the document changed into a spreadsheet with easy sorting and filtering options. This is in my opinion a great improvement! The document is available on the VMware Communities. This is the public draft of the vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide. It is being posted to this Community in order to provide early access to interested parties, and…

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Securing vCenter Mobile Access using fail2ban

Securing vCenter Mobile Access using fail2ban

This is a small post which explains how you can secure vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA). For the people who don’t know what vCenter Mobile Access is I suggest you check out the Flings page. People who use the iPad vSphere Client will probably have this Fling running in their environment or lab. The Fling itself is a CentOS install which has a few ports open to the outside by default. The following commands will help you install Fail2ban and give…

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