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December 17, 2020 10:39 am

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An ASPICE Overview

Now that you're well-versed in the Waterfall Model and V-Model, it's time to take the step up into a wider world of ASPICE. I won't bore you with the details of its pedigree but ASPICE descends from a line of ISO documents concerned with setting up standards around software development. ASPICE stands for Automotive SPICE […]

By: Marcus Meissner

December 14, 2020 7:32 am

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SUSE statement on Amnesia:33 vulnerabilities

Researchers from Forescout research labs have published a set of new software vulnerabilities that affect embedded TCP/IP stacks. The set of vulnerabilities, called AMNESIA:33, only affects small parts of the SUSE Linux Enterprise set of packages. The Linux Kernel TCP/IP implementation is not affected by these vulnerabilities, as it uses its own IP stack. The […]

By: Michael Knop

December 8, 2020 12:59 pm

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The V-Model

Having suffered through my adoration of the venerable Waterfall Model (WM), it's time to expand upon it and bring us out of the bronze age of system development and into the age of steam with the V-Model (VM). The VM is similar to the WM in that it promotes a flow from requirements through architecture […]

By: Michael Knop

November 30, 2020 12:21 pm

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Developer Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Waterfall Model

Everyone loves to hate the Waterfall Model (WM) and extoll the virtues of modern development methodologies. But while people are rolling their eyes at the mere mention of the WM, they forget that it was one of the first attempts at a systematic approach to complex system development. Few first attempts turn out to be […]

By: Brice Dekany

August 21, 2020 8:37 am

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SUSE Manager and openSCAP: 200 security rules made for you

OpenSCAP is an opensource tool to test and verify security compliance against a set of rules. Did you know that SUSE provides more than 200 rules in its own SCAP Security Guide? See French version Of course there is the SLES Hardening Guide but there is a lot of other security certifications like STIG DISA, […]

Categories: Automate IT Ops, Compliance, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

By: Jason Phippen

July 8, 2020 8:16 am

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End-to-End Retail IT Infrastructure Management: What’s new SUSE Manager for Retail 4.1

Manage, Secure, Automate and Comply with the newest version of the SUSE Infrastructure Management Solution for the Retail industry. From Mainframe and HPC Clusters to bare metal servers and VMs down to point of service terminals, kiosks, self-service and reverse-vending system Linux deployments, SUSE Manager for Retail is designed to help you reduce costs, optimize […]

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By: Marcus Meissner

June 9, 2020 4:39 pm

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SUSE addresses Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) aka CrossTalk attack

Today Intel and security researchers published a number of security issues covering various Intel hardware and software components in their IPU 2020.1 release. One of those issues is a side-channel information leak attack against special registers, like the Intel CPU random register. Memory can not be read out, only previously generated random values could […]

By: Robert Schweikert

June 1, 2020 5:58 pm

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SUSE Update Infrastructure Access Through the Data Center

In Step 2 Toward Enhanced Update Infrastructure Access the time-line for enabling access to the SUSE update infrastructure in the Public Cloud via routing through the data center was announced. As of June 1, 2020 we have started the work necessary to make this possible for all regions in AWS, Azure, and GCE. This […]

By: Jason Phippen

March 31, 2020 2:09 pm

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Managing Compliance for Linux Systems with SUSE® Manager 4

SUSE® Manager 4 is a best-in-class open source infrastructure management solution that lowers costs, enhances availability and reduces complexity for lifecycle management of Linux systems in large, complex and dynamic IT landscapes. You can use SUSE® Manager 4 to configure, deploy and administer thousands of Linux systems running on hypervisors, as containers, on bare metal […]

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Categories: Compliance, Configuration Management, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Manager

By: Robert Schweikert

December 16, 2019 9:25 pm

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Step 2 Toward Enhanced Update Infrastructure Access

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of announcing a major upgrade to our update infrastructure that serves updates to on-demand instances in AWS, Azure, and GCP. In the blog I promised that we would be enabling network traffic routing that allows you to send data from your instances in the Public Cloud through your […]