Engineering Journal

Practical knowledge for better IT decisions.

Clear, useful engineering guidance on infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, cloud, virtualization and business continuity.

Designing VLANs for a Growing Business

A practical approach to separating users, servers, guests and critical systems without making the network difficult to operate.

How firewall zones, policies and VLANs work together to create a controlled business network.

The practical questions to ask when choosing a virtualization platform for business workloads.

The network and security decisions that matter when connecting on-premises infrastructure with AWS workloads.

Why having copies of data is only one part of being able to recover a business after an incident.

A practical baseline for reducing unnecessary exposure on Linux servers used in business environments.