Tag: LoadMaster

The Landscape of DDoS Attacks and Guidance to Prepare Your Defense for 2022’s Most Common DDoS Attacks

Businesses of all sizes, in all industries, are vulnerable to DDoS attacks. This statement is as true today as it was when I first wrote about the state of DDoS …

September 13, 2022

How to Choose a Load Balancer: 5 Tips for Finding the Best Load Balancing Solution

If you were in IT in the mid-90s, you may have heard of load balancing. These were low-level hardware devices designed to distribute traffic across the network and focused largely …

September 8, 2022

How to Use a Load Balancer as an API Gateway

One of the biggest trends in application delivery is the increased importance of integration capabilities. Web applications are not only consumed by end users, but also make up functionality consumed …

August 10, 2022

Enhancing Day-One Exploit Containment with Custom WAF Rules

Bridging the gap between when a vulnerability announcement is released and when a fix is available. We live in a world where the good guys are constantly responding to threats …

August 5, 2022

How To Use Progress Kemp LoadMaster for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications, and services through a global network of Oracle’s managed data centers. The …

August 4, 2022

Implement Single Sign-On and Pre-Authentication for any application with Okta and Progress Kemp LoadMaster

Organizations experience a challenge in making applications easily available anytime and anywhere while also maintaining the balance between access security and user experience. Today, application access patterns have moved towards …

August 2, 2022

Making OpenEdge All It Can Be with LoadMaster

Progress customers build some of their most mission-critical applications with the OpenEdge application development platform. Many have also taken the next step, moving these applications to the Progress Application Server …

July 28, 2022

Choosing a Load Balancer: A Buyer’s Guide to Success

Digital infrastructure has become essential to many parts of modern life. It’s hard to think of anything that digital delivery doesn’t touch in some way – shopping, banking, healthcare, entertainment, …

A, B, C, D, E(LK) plus LM WAF Equals stunning visualization!

This blog will run through creating dashboards in the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Stack to gain further insight into the LoadMaster WAF (Web Application Firewall). ELK Stack The ELK Stack …

January 20, 2022

Power(Shell) your WAF deployment

It is nice to develop scripts that you can use to configure your load balancer and Web Application Firewall (WAF).  The scripts can help integrate these services into your network orchestration …

October 7, 2021

What’s New in LoadMaster Certificate Management

It’s a System Admins worst nightmare. There you are at your desk. Everything is calm for once, and you can finally catch up on all those things you have wanted …

September 2, 2021

Surfacing LoadMaster SSO User Logins in Flowmon Collector

This blog describes how you can use LoadMaster and Flowmon Collector to pair specific users with the corresponding network traffic and application transactions when investigating performance issues, to provide dashboards, …

August 26, 2021

Let’s Encrypt on LoadMaster – Free & automated certificate renewal

LoadMaster fully integrates the Let’s Encrypt automated enrollment and renewal processes without requiring an external webserver.  Why you should automate certificate renewal  Certificate expiration causes an embarrassing sort of downtime.  Though your website …

August 19, 2021

How to Simplify Kubernetes with Load Balancers

This blog post supports the Kemp BrightTALK technical discussion from the 26th of May 2021. In the talk, which you can view here, Barry Gleeson (Product Manager), Roy Dunican (Platform Ops at …

August 4, 2021

Using Kemp LoadMaster and GEO in HashiCorp Vault Deployment

What is HashiCorp Vault  HashiCorp Vault is a secret management tool which allows you to secure, store and tightly control access to various types of sensitive data including tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. Vault provides a unified …

March 24, 2021

Exposing Kubernetes Services

Introduction Catch up on last weeks post on the Impact of Kubernetes on Network Administrators here. Container based microservice applications, provide benefits to the development and operation of applications and …

February 24, 2021

Impact of Kubernetes on Network Administrators

Introduction Following on from last weeks Kuberntes introduction, this week we look at the impact of Kubernetes on network Administrators. Lately, there is massive interest in the move to microservice …

February 17, 2021

Confessions of a Certified Citrix Engineer on Load Balancing

As a certified Citrix Network Engineer my experience of Citrix NetScaler load balancing (now known as Citrix ADC) has changed over the years. I was first introduced into Citrix technologies …

February 10, 2021

Cloud Native Load Balancing Versus Kemp

Cloud-first deployment is the choice of many organizations when they are looking to roll out new applications and services, or when they come to upgrade existing ones. The benefits of …

January 21, 2021

All the Ops – What are They?

The IT sector, like all specialized industries, has developed language shorthand and words to make communication easier. Everyone is expected to know what they mean so that conversations and writing …

November 12, 2020