Welcome to 2018! If the kids in the back seat have been
chanting, ‘Are we there yet?, Are we
there yet?’ you can tell them, ‘Yes! Now,
Get out the car!’
If, like me, you’ve taken a couple weeks off to enjoy the
holidays and New Year, you might be wondering where to start again or what to
catch up on. Let me help you.
First, the biggest ‘industry’ news so far in this early 2018
has got to be the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities found in computer
processors and affects almost every chip (mostly Intel) in the world. From
operating systems to chip makers to cloud providers, there’s been a massive
effort to get the word out and patch things up. Want to understand the
situation better? Check out John
Wagnon’s Lightboard Lesson Explaining
the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities. And probably one of the
best tweets about the vulnerabilities comes from @infosecgoon
According to F5’s David Holmes, Everything old
is new again in 2018. And in Return
of Bleichenbacher - the ROBOT Attack CVE-2017-6168, David explains the
attack, how it affects BIG-IP, how to tell if you are vulnerable and how to
mitigate. So, what is the real impact of ROBOT? David notes that the
Bleichenbacher attack only affects RSA sessions not protected with the
ephemeral keys offered by forward secrecy. All modern browsers and mobile
clients have preferred ephemeral keys for several years.
As more organizations migrate to the cloud – a hybrid one at
that - in 2018, you’ll want to bookmark Chase Abbott’s Welcome
to the F5 BIG-IP Migration Assistant. The F5® BIG-IP® Migration Assistant
is a tool freely distributed by F5 to facilitate migrating BIG-IP
configurations between different platforms. You can use Migration Assistant
when you have an existing BIG-IP instance and you want to replace the current hardware
with new hardware. Chase gives a great overview of the tool including What can go wrong. Lots of engaging
comments on this one and Chase always tells it like it is!
Lastly, as we open 2018, DevCentral wants to recognize our 2017 MVPs! The DevCentral MVP Program
shines a spotlight on the best, brightest and most active members of our
community. We got some new contributors mixed with some old favorites and they
are always willing to help with expertise, examples and war stories. Many of
the new faces were Featured Members last year so check out their stories like December's Kevin Davies.
We got a lot coming in 2018 including more #Basics,
Lightboards, Posts of the Week, articles and our always active Q/A forums and
Code Share. If you’re a DevCentral member, we appreciate the contributions, if
not a DevCentral member, sign up
and join one of the most active communities in tech.
Welcome to the DC Chronicles and btw, 2018 will be the Year
of the Dog, in case you were wondering.
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