Using Check Point WAFaaS with WordPress
Recently having joined Check Point as a Cloud Product Manager, I thought it was about time I started to eat my own Dog Food. For those who have followed me, or read my blog over the years, know I am a big believer in eating my own dog food. Not only is it a good way to learn the products you are working with, but it is a great way to understand the capabilities (and pain points) when you use it with your own services. So with that in mind, I decided to try out Check Point Web Application Firewall as a Service (WAFaaS) offering, and use it to provide better protection for my WordPress blog. So if your successfully reading this article, it clearly works 😀 Lets start by understand what the Check Point WAFaaS is, and why it is a good offering for my WordPress deployment. What Does […]
Heading back to Vendor Land
Well… after a bit of time away and a nice sabbatical from social media it is now time for my return. Where do I start? Post Covid has certainly been an interesting time in my life. Divorce, custody battles which I won, trying to keep my kids on track, and leaving Veeam after it all just became to much to deal with all at once, I decided to take some time off work completely. That is completely no work, not looking for work, and just focus on my kids. I decided to go back to the UK for a while and spend time with my family, with my kids. It was fun, I needed the break, and my kids benefited massively from having me fully present, without hearing the words, Daddy has a call, I will be free in an hour. Fast forward 12 months, and I decided to take […]
Quick look at the new dashboard in Veeam Backup for AWS
Recently Veeam released version 5 of Veeam Backup for AWS. In this new release a number of enhancements and capabilities can be found. For those that have not seen all the key new capabilities, a blog detailing all these announcements can be read here. Today I want to focus on is a completely redesigned dashboard. This new dashboard provides a lot of easy to see information about what is happening in the environment immediately, making it easy to understand what is happening, spot any errors, and just have a general easy to see oversight of everything you are protecting in the AWS cloud. First, lets take a look at the new dashboard: As you can see from the screenshot above, the dashboard provides a lot of key information to provide understanding to key areas of your data protection solution in AWS. Each area provides the capabilities to drill further into […]
Using AWS tags to automate your backups with Veeam Backup for AWS
Over the past few weeks and months, I have been having a lot of conversations with people about automation and the use of tags within AWS. Tags within AWS are nothing new, and AWS provides a vast amount of information on how to use them. First of all lets think of a use case for AWS tags. Backups are a good use case. You can easily apply an AWS tag to an EC2 instance so that you know whether this should be part of a backup policy or not. For example, you can create a simple tag called backup and have true or false as the value. AWS has a number of documents that are really helpful to understand what tags are and how they can be used. I have listed two of my favourites here: Tagging your EC2 resources AWS Tagging strategies With the recent release of Veeam Backup […]