LASCON 2021: Writing Policies That Aren’t Miserable for Everyone Involved

Policies. In theory they should be the backbone of any good information security program, but in reality few if any people actually read them and even fewer can understand what they mean. For ages we’ve been trying to solve this problem through education efforts, but maybe it’s time to look at how we construct policies in the first place and take a microservices approach to writing them?

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Configuring a Load Balanced WordPress Website with the Rackspace Cloud

I’ve been playing around with the Rackspace Cloud hosting offerings, and as of right now I’ve got this very blog running load balanced on a set of servers. And while it’s a little more complicated than just setting up a single server it really isn’t that hard. In fact, I’ll step you through the process.

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