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Gear up as The ITOM podcast returns with an all new episode specially tailored to help ease all your remote work woes in an IT environment. In the last episode, we discussed VPNs, their protocols, and the advantages of using a VPN in the remote work setting. Episode 1 helped set the stage for us to dive deeper into the nuances of VPN security and encryption. Encryption helps transform confidential information into cipher text or coded text for safe transit across secure VPN tunnels.
Use the HAProxy Runtime API to update SSL certificates in HAProxy without a reload. When you route traffic through an HAProxy load balancer, you gain the ability to terminate SSL at the load balancer. HAProxy encrypts communication between the client and itself and then sends the decrypted messages to your backend servers, which means less CPU work on the servers because there’s no encryption work left to do.
A network operations center (“NOC”) provides a central location for enterprise IT. Here, NOC team members supervise, monitor, and maintain an enterprise’s services, databases, external services, firewalls, and networks. With a full understanding of how a NOC works, your enterprise is well-equipped to maximize its performance.
Growth is generally considered to be a healthy characteristic of a business. But, if the firm cannot establish systems that can take care of that growth, it might end up digging a hole for its operations.