Envoy - Next Generation Remote Management
Network security management is a very hard thing to do these days. As technology becomes more advance, network security is harder and harder to manage. Controlling who has access to a network, what they are doing and making an accurate report is becoming more and more challenging, add to it the geographical distribution of networks and you have a recipe for disaster. Envoy, Uplogix’ flagship product, addresses all the requirements needed to run a secure network. I could not put it better than the expert on Envoy, so here’s a snippet from the Uplogix site:
Uplogix’ flagship product, the award-winning Envoy appliance, represents the next-generation in remote management technology. By combining the localized control and survivable connectivity of a console server with the intelligence of an enterprise software solution, Envoy delivers active, secure management that effectively automates and simplifies the administration and maintenance of your distributed infrastructure.
Envoy provides powerful capabilities unlike any you’ve ever experienced in a console server, KVM switch, or other out-of-band management product. Rather than simply offering passive access to devices, Envoy delivers functionality than can help you actively and securely manage and maintain the complex array of switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and myriad of other devices that populate your remote sites and data centers.
In fact, Envoy appliances single-handedly address 95% of the issues that impact distributed networks and automate more than 60% of normal maintenance tasks – like OS upgrades, configuration and policy changes, and password updates. No other remote management solution can make that kind of claim. Nor do they offer the secure management and compliance features that the Envoy provides.
PayPal Account Access Has Been Restored
I just got an email from Paypal telling me that my account has been restored back to me, after countless calls with agent after agent telling me one thing and then another I finally get to talk to Monica from Paypal’s International Support. She walked me through the process of restoring back access to me, two agents from the resolution team told me to just fax the documents needed to a particular number even without Paypal’s Fax Cover Sheet but they neglected to tell me that doing so would make my faxed documents get buried in piles of documents and it would take them weeks to pull it up. Whereas, if you have the Fax cover sheet it would not take too long to pull up. So what Monica did was give me access to my compromised account so that I can use the Fax cover sheet and send a fax over. I did encounter some minor mishaps, there’s no link to change the primary email back to my email address and delete the email address of the person who accessed my account. But I did overcome those and now I have full access to my account.
I will always, always check and double check the URLs of each website that I go to - That was a hard lesson to learn. You know one funny thing happened last night, the first time I went to that supposedly Paypal site, firefox did not detect that it was a phishing site but when I tried to go to that page again last night the warning finally popped up. Weird…
My Paypal Account was HACKED!!!
You heard me right, my paypal account was hacked and it was all my fault. It has always been my practice to check the URL of every site I go to, I did not know what happened last night, I did not check the URL so I got HACKED, BIG TIME! Now I know, even internet savvy peeps are not immune to these hackers…
I did call paypal’s customer support but I must have been very unlucky last night because I got disconnected when the agent was supposed to transfer me to the resolution team. So I lost the money that I have in my paypal account, lucky for me, it was not much. I did submit the documents paypal needs to confirm my identity, so now I am waiting for them to give my account access back to me. It was a hard lesson to learn, but I learned nonetheless. Here is the email that I got and the web form that I stupidly answered: (click on the pictures to view full size)
