Technical

Mitigation for Exchange Servers Hafnium Zero-day vulnerabilities
Just months after the notorious SolarWinds supply chain attack, Microsoft faced another major cybersecurity crisis—this time, targeting on-premises Exchange Servers. A threat actor identified as Hafnium exploited a group of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019, gaining unauthorized access to email accounts and enabling the deployment of malware for persistent access.…

Understanding VPN IPSec Modes
Find out what IPsec and IPsec tunnel mode is? When do you need it? How does it work? Do VPNs use IPsec? And protect your data today! There is an increasing focus on protecting data transfer as the lockdown continues in most countries across the globe. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have become a tool of…

SKUDONET continuously defeating vulnerabilities!
Networking is always facing new challenges and threats and it becomes more and more vital to manage the safest and most accurate tools to provide all the security needed. As a part of our extensive services, SKUDONET has developed a system to achieve these goals. Let us introduce you to: VULS applied to SKUDONET Vuls…

Delivering the best continuity for non-connection oriented services
Did you know that SKUDONET implements different techniques to provide higher performance and high scale for non-connection oriented and real-time services like UDP (User Datagram Protocol), SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), VoIP (Voice over IP), VPN (Virtual Private Network), SYSLOG (System Logging Protocol), DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) among others? Due to…

Lessons learned from Netdev Conference 0x13 in Prague
This edition of the Netdev Conference 0x13 has been driven by a great organization and the high quality of the talks and open discussions. The broad variety of companies, technologies and profiles gives to this community event an important reference to the Linux Networking environment. All of that, joined with the highlighted presence of people…

The definitive guide of SIP and PBX services at scale
SKUDONET is proud to present the definitive guide of SIP proxy load balancing to build scalable VoIP scalability, highly available and with enhanced security. In addition, advanced health check to the backends are proposed launching dummy calls to the real SIP servers. Find out the details in the knowledge base article: https://www.skudonet.com/knowledge-base/howtos/how-to-load-balance-and-create-highly-available-sip-and-pbx-services/

Integrating SKUDONET in your SIEM
A load balancer is an important piece in any IT infrastructure as it manages a big part of the traffic to the corporate applications, so a good monitoring of what is happening in our application delivery is key to maintain a high quality service. For that reason, we've compiled a complete article about SNMP and…

FileCloud load balancing article
This week, a new article is available in the howto section of the Knowledge Base. FileCloud enables a private cloud that makes your files accessible from any device from anywhere, but also synchronization across computers. It helps users share files seamlessly within or outside an organization. Check out further about high availability and scale FileCloud!…

Load Balancing NTLM authentication and ASP.NET impersonation is easy!
Following our Microsoft technical articles series, we've published how to load balance NTLM authentication based web applications dedicated to layer 4 but also layer 7 advanced options. Firstly, we explain how this authentication protocol designed form Microsoft works in order to be able to define different options to configure our virtual services with SKUDONET. Finally,…