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Host-Based Detection Part 2: From OSSEC to Wazuh, and What Actually Changed
OSSEC didn't stagnate the way it's often described, and Wazuh's 2015 fork happened for specific, checkable reasons. The real history behind the tool already running on two of this site's own boxes.
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Metasploit Deep Dive Part 1: History, Editions, and the Shape of the Framework
Where Metasploit came from, what Framework vs Pro actually means today, and why a series about the most-covered tool in offensive security still has something to add.
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CVE-2026-45504 Part 1: Why On-Prem Exchange Is an Active Directory Attack Surface
On-prem Exchange has always been a heavily-trusted AD citizen, not a bolt-on app server. This series scopes a real, patched CVE against that history, and against a credential this blog already spent two other series getting a working password for.
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BloodHound Deep Dive Part 1: History, Community Edition, and Where It Sits in an Engagement
Where BloodHound came from, how Community Edition is actually built (Postgres, Neo4j, a single Go binary), and where attack-path analysis fits between recon and exploitation in a real engagement.
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Contrail SD-WAN Deep Dive Part 1: Contrail Service Orchestration and the SRX/NFX CPE Model
Before Session Smart Routing, Juniper's enterprise SD-WAN ran on Contrail Service Orchestration — an SDN/NFV control plane repurposed for site connectivity, provisioning SRX firewalls and NFX universal CPE. This post walks the architecture as it actually shipped.
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Contrail SD-WAN Deep Dive Part 3: Why Contrail Lost the Enterprise, and the Pivot to Session Smart
Closing the Contrail arc: a straight comparison against Viptela, VeloCloud, and CloudGenix, what CSO's architecture cost it competitively, and the specific rationale Juniper gave for retiring it in favour of Session Smart Routing.
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From Contrail to Session Smart: A History of Juniper's SD-WAN Journey
Juniper has shipped two structurally different SD-WAN products under one brand: Contrail Service Orchestration, born out of an SDN/NFV controller, and Session Smart Routing, born out of a 2014 session-border-controller team's bet that tunnels were the wrong abstraction. This is how one became the other.
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Palo Alto Prisma SDWAN Deep Dive Part 1: From CloudGenix to App-Defined SASE
Starting an eight-part deep dive into Palo Alto Prisma SDWAN — the fourth control-plane philosophy this site has covered, after Fortinet, Arista/VeloCloud, and Cisco/Viptela. Part 1 covers the CloudGenix lineage, the 2020 acquisition, and what 'app-defined' actually means before we touch a single ION device.
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A Brief History of SDWAN Controllers: Viptela, VeloCloud, CloudGenix, and Why Cisco Runs Two SDWAN Stacks
Three startups solved SDWAN's control-plane problem within a year of each other. Two got bought by exactly the company you'd expect; one brand didn't survive. The acquisition history of Viptela, VeloCloud, and CloudGenix — and why Cisco still runs two unrelated SDWAN stacks today.