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Nick Anderson

Badlock Reporting and Remediation

By now you have probably heard about the Badlock vulnerability (CVE-2016-2118) in DCE/RPC-based SAMR and LSA protocols used in the Microsoft Windows ActiveDirectory infrastructure as well as other critical security flows in Samba. With CFEngine Enterprise you can simply tag any variable or class and …

Posted by Nick Anderson
April 19, 2016

Modular policies with autorun and the augments_file

1, 2, 3.7 GO! CFEngine 3.7 was released just over a week ago and one of the neat things with 3.7 is the new augments_file also known as def.json or overrides. What’s so neat about it? It’s going to make your future policy upgrades easier! I will be using the CFEngine Enterprise Vagrant …

Posted by Nick Anderson
July 26, 2015

Reporting and Remediation of Security Vulnerabilities

With the slew of recent security issues like Supermarket Point of Sale Compromises not once but twice, other large retailer card breaches, the famed Heartbleed vulnerability and others in the news. We want to share an example of how CFEngine can be used to quickly identify and remediate affected …

Posted by Nick Anderson
September 30, 2014

Digging Up Bundles and Bodies

Originally posted by Nick on cmdln.org You never know when the Zombie or Cloud Apocalypse is coming. It’s good to be able to locate those buried bodies quickly and easily. OK, enough bad jokes, but haven’t you ever looked at some CFEngine policy and wondered to yourself, exactly what …

Posted by Nick Anderson
January 31, 2014