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Blueprint for Heartbleed and OpenSSL Risk Exposure Prevention

Forum Systems to Showcase API and Cloud Security Gateway at Infosecurity Europe Forum Systems Inc. will be showcasing Forum Sentry – its industry-leading API and Cloud Security Gateway – next week at Infosecurity Europe 2014. Europe’s biggest free-to-attend information security … Read More … Read More

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5 Questions to Ask your Load Balancer Vendor

Heartbleed, the recent security flaw found in OpenSSL, is just one of many flaws discovered in this open source code base. Many load balancer providers have bolted on OpenSSL to manage SSL traffic through their product. Here are five questions … Read More … Read More

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Forum Systems – Infosecurity Europe 2014

Forum Systems will be attending Infosecurity Europe 2014, Europe’s number one information security event, on April 29th through May 1st. The event will be hosted at Earls Court, London and it is free to attend for individuals as long as you … Read More … Read More

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OpenSSL Security Vulnerabilities and other C-based Risks

The latest Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) is again a re-affirmation that usage of C-based security modules by an enterprise company greatly increases its risk posture. … Read More

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Forum Systems – Interop 2014

Forum Systems is pleased to announce that we will be attending Interop Las Vegas 2014 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Interop Las Vegas, the leading independant technology conference and expo series designed to inspire and inform the world’s IT … Read More … Read More

How to Save Resources with Centralized API Security

There are plenty of reasons to go with centralized API security by deploying an API gateway but in this blog post we are going to focus on why it’s beneficial for your development team(s). The security model in an organization … Read More … Read More

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How to Use OAuth to Integrate with Public Cloud Services

Traditionally, consumer internet companies have been the dominant users of public cloud services. Now enterprise customers, who initially had strong reservations about public cloud services are integrating their applications with those services. Enterprise applications such as databases, CRMs (Customer Resource … Read More … Read More

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How to Use OAuth for Enterprise Identity Management

The power and flexibility of OAuth in the social media sector has given enterprise companies an impetus to start adopting the OAuth standard for their cloud-based enterprise identity management.  A prime example of this adoption is based on a use … Read More … Read More

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Forum Sentry Tutorial – How to Install ClamAV

The Forum Sentry hardware version comes preloaded with certain features that software versions do not. One of these is Antivirus. The Sentry supports ICAP AV interface to any anti-virus vendor that supports ICAP. The Sentry also offers ClamAV, an open source alternate that utilizes pattern recognition. … Read More

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Forum Sentry Tutorial – How to Install Forum Sentry Software

For this tutorial, we will go through installing the Sentry on 32Bit CentOS machine, which is actually running as a VirtualBox on 64 Bit Ubuntu Machine. This example shows both Native Linux installation and how to create your own corporate Virtual Image vs utilizing Forum Systems Virtual Image. … Read More

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