Insights from the load balancer experts

Is getting an A+ rating with the Qualys scanner starting to feel a bit like chasing a mythical unicorn? Every time you get close to catching and keeping the beast — it run's away and they change the rules again!..

There seems to have been so much hype over the recent bash bug, shell shock! And there were all the people in the Microsoft world thinking YES we are so cool we are NOT affected by it!..

We've had a chat about this internally and thought that it would be nice to have a permanent post on the blog that we change on the fly as and when customer requirements change...

By default, the load balancer uses a TCP connect to the port defined in the Virtual Service to verify the health of each real (backend) server. For IIS, this would typically be port 80...

WNLB causes switch flooding and does not support multiple scheduling algorithms for distributing client load...

By default, the source IP address of the packet reaching the web servers is the IP address of the load balancer and not the IP address of the client...

Whilst the Heartbleed bug was relatively easy to exploit, the latest batch of bugs are not...

To ensure complete protection all SSL certificates that have been used with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL should be regenerated using a new private key...

Exchange 2013 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server. It has been designed for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation...

In Exchange 2010, system functionality is split into five server roles (Mailbox, Client Access (CAS), Unified Messaging, Hub Transport (HT) and Edge Transport).  Mandatory roles are Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport...

Let me first say that I'm not really a fan of PCI scanners. It's not so much that I'm anti security scanners but rather that scanning for vulnerabilities based on only the version number a package returns seems rather simplistic to me...

There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...