Confirming that your networking is secure
Almost all machines at some level communicate with other machines. In the embedded Linux systems space, this may not always be true. Some appliances are simply standalone solutions that are not connected to any network. In other use cases, the security posture of where they may reside might dictate that they are on a heavily restricted LAN segment that has limited access to other systems and no access whatsoever to the internet or other segments of the enterprise.
Network configuration and securitization are intrinsic to basic Linux systems administration. But we are not designing systems to reside within our own datacenter or network. We are building products that will reside in a customer’s ecosystem, whatever level of security that might entail. Our customers have placed a level of trust and responsibility in our hands to ensure that what we deliver to them is already locked down and secure. Oftentimes, more so than what their...
