Shedding OpenDaylight onto Linux Open-So for Future Win-Impact

As Microsoft increasingly embraces open source as a source of growth rather than as competition, Win Joes around the world are familiarising themselves rapidly and immersing themselves in core open source initiatives which may have future impact on the Windows World.

A short selection:

OpenDaylight
Open vSwitch
OPNFV
OpenStack
Open Container Initiative
Cloud Native Computing Foundation

OpenDaylight is a core component of projects such as ONAP (Open Networking Automation Platform) which in turn is a great example of open collaboration within the telecoms community.

Understanding the Contro over Single Sign On

Single sign on (SSO) allows you to authenticate yourself to a variety of different but related systems.

LDAP is a technology typically used to implement this. LDAP is detailed in a series of IETF RFCs and has its roots in X.500 directory services.

As enterprises generally require different levels of secure access the term SSO has been criticised in favour of the term RSO or "reduced sign on".

Remote Desktop Protocol Vulnerability is Patched

A bug in RDP (nicknamed "BlueKeep") allows an unauthenticated attacker to connect to a system using RDP. This would allow arbitrary code execution on a target system.  Microsoft has released a fix for Windows 7 in Patch Tuesday. "Exploit Wednesday" has been an unofficial term for the window of opportunity post patch release when unpatched machines will be exploitable to cyberattack.