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By Sandeep Balijepalli, Principal Product Manager, VeloCloud Division of Broadcom VeloCloud SASE and SD-WAN have revolutionized enterprise connectivity by combining intelligent path selection, application-aware routing, zero touch provisioning and comprehensive visibility — all delivered through secure, centralized management. As enterprise networks become increasingly distributed across offices, cloud environments, and remote locations, the need for proactive monitoring capabilities becomes critical. In today’s data-driven landscape, successful enterprise WANs translate network telemetry and and application behavior patterns into actionable insights, enabling ...

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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for April, 2025 is now available. The following Individual patches have been published: · 2025-04 Office - msodll302016-kb5002573-fullfile-x86-glb · 2025-04 Office - access2016-kb5002701-fullfile-x86-glb · 2025-04 Office - onenote2016-kb5002622-fullfile-x86-glb · 2025-04 Office - mso2016-kb5002700-fullfile-x86-glb · 2025-04 Office - chart2016-kb4484432-fullfile-x86-glb · 2025-04 Office - ace2016-kb5002588-fullfile-x86-glb · 2025-04 ...

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March 2025 Rally Newsletter Latest product updates, news and resources. 2025 Value Stream Management Summit VSM Evolution meets AI Revolution . The 5th Annual VSM Summit is here! Maximize the power of VSM with AI! Drive faster transformation, reduce costs, and create better customer experiences. Learn from Forrester, Ahold USA, Carnival Cruise Line, Chubb Insurance and others at our FREE virtual summit. Don't miss this valuable event! Register Now ...

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February 2025 Rally Newsletter Latest product updates, news and resources. Do you know someone who's making waves with Digital Transformation? Nominate them today! Witnessing the power of Value Stream Management & Digital Transformation firsthand? Don't let those stories go untold. The Wavemaker Award is your chance to recognize those individuals who are driving change and making a difference. Nominate the game changers and help us celebrate the future of innovation. Nominate Now! ...

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vDefend Release Announcement by Prashant Gandhi March 26, 2025 New enhancements include: Micro-segmentation Assessment, Air-gapped NDR, and Scale-out Data Lake Platform (Security Services Platform 5.0) For decades, enterprises have relied on perimeter defenses to protect their private cloud assets from external threats. Yet, in this era of ransomware, protecting only the perimeter has proven to be insufficient. Traditionally, only a handful of "crown jewel" applications were protected inside the private cloud. East-west traffic being ~4X more than north-south traffic, extending perimeter defenses internally proved neither scalable nor economically ...

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by Stijn Vanveerdeghem February 25, 2025 Complex, multi-staged ransomware attacks are top of mind for organizations across all industries. VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention has won the AAA award from SE labs in the Advanced Security test, confirming its excellent capabilities in detecting these advanced threats. We are very happy to announce that SE Labs has awarded VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) the AAA rating in Advanced Security testing. According to the report, " VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention was tested against a range of hacking attacks designed to compromise systems and penetrate target networks ...

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by Nikodim Nikodimov February 6, 2025 At Broadcom, we are committed to providing cutting-edge security solutions to empower VMware Cloud Foundation customers with cyber-resilient private cloud. We are excited to announce the general availability of Lateral Security for VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware vDefend validated solution. New to VMware Validated Solutions? VMware Validated Solutions is a vetted portfolio of technical validated solutions designed to help customers build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads deployed on VMware Cloud Foundation. The VMware ...

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Introduction: In today’s online ecosystem, organizations must increasingly prioritize API security to meet ever-evolving regulatory standards. From General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), robust compliance protocols are essential for protecting user data and preventing breaches. Broadcom’s Layer7 API Gateway offers a broad range of tools and policies that can make achieving and maintaining compliance for your organization more manageable and effective. In this post, we'll walk you through leveraging Broadcom’s Layer7 ...

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This article describes AI gateway patterns and introduces recipes you can use with Layer7 to apply these patterns. .

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Wiz Research team discovered a series of unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes . Today the Ingress-nginx team released a new version fixing critical security issues. The most critical one is the CVE-2025-1974 : ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation. Under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution (RCE) in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This could lead to the disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. The CVE-2025-1974 means that anything on the Pod network has a good chance ...

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Database AnalyzerTM for Db2 for z/OS is a powerful tool that you can use to automate and perform regular database maintenance. The product is packed full of features and we build content to help both experienced and novice DBAs navigate all of them. To help you get started and take advantage of Database Analyzer, we provide detailed procedures for the most common use cases for performing maintenance on complex databases that incorporate our recommended best practices. In the RTOS Extract Procedure Use Case , you need to perform regular maintenance on a Db2 database and run REORG, RUNSTATS, and Image Copy based on DSNACCOX stored procedure recommendations. ...

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We at the Broadcom Mainframe Division continue to invest in building APIs so that we can extend the usability of our products and thus deliver more value to our customers. The Broadcom Techdocs organization supports this API investment by adding modern, consistent, and intuitive API content to ensure that users have an efficient and productive experience. So, let’s dive right in and explain what we’ve been up to. Improved REST API Documentation Whether your job is to configure a REST API server, set up REST API security, or you use product endpoints in your day-to-day job, we want to make it easy for you to find the information you need and use ...

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Zowe’s Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities simplify access to mainframe resources while maintaining robust security. A range of authentication methods are available both for Zowe extenders (developers integrating services) as well as Zowe end-users. Detailed guidance on implementing authentication, including configuring security settings, verifying tokens, and handling authorization are available at Zowe Docs . For this blog, we’ll take a look at authentication methods available to both Zowe extenders and Zowe end-users. Authentication Methods for Zowe Extenders Zowe extenders can integrate their services with the API Mediation Layer (API ML) through ...

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The WatchTower Platform Suite is a modern mainframe observability solution designed to make navigating vast amounts of information intuitive and efficient. In an environment where information overload is a constant challenge, WatchTower simplifies problem detection and resolution by seamlessly integrating operational tools, workflows, and data from multiple sources. By leveraging AI and machine learning, Watchtower cuts through complexity and noise, allowing teams to focus on what matters the most. The key business value of the WatchTower platform lies in its ability to transition organizations from reactive recovery to proactive avoidance of issues. By detecting ...

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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that rollups for March, 2025 is now available. The following rollups have been published: Rollups: · CA - Patch Me - Security IntelliRollup v2503.00 · CA - Microsoft OS Extended Support Update - IntelliRollup v2503.00 · CA - Office 32Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2503.00 · CA - Office 64Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2503.00 These items will be available for acceptance in your Patch Manager GUI after the next successful run of the "Software Contents Download Job". Note: Microsoft announced ...

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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for March, 2025 is now available. The following Individual patches have been published: · 2025-03 Security Monthly Quality Rollup - Windows8.1-kb5053887-x64 · 2025-03 Security Only Update - windows6.0-kb5053995-x64 · 2025-03 Cumulative Update for IE9 - windows6.0-kb5053593-x64 · 2025-03 Servicing Stack - Win10-kb5054006-x86-1607 · 2025-03 Cumulative Update - Win10-kb5053594-x86-1607 · 2025-03 Cumulative Update - Win10-kb5053596-x86-1809 · ...

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Day-2 tasks on ESXi hosts are usually routine, but sometimes, they turn into complex troubleshooting scenarios :) Recently, I came across an issue that left me scrambling for solutions. The event on the ESXi Host, that stood out: 2025年02月19日T07:00:49.428Z: [VisorfsCorrelator] 2184901822us: [vob.visorfs.ramdisk.inodetable.full] Cannot create file /var/log/.vmsyslogd.err for process vmsyslogd because the inode table of its ramdisk (var) is full. 2025年02月19日T07:00:49.429Z: [VisorfsCorrelator] 2184884819us: [esx.problem.visorfs.ramdisk.inodetable.full] The file table of the ramdisk 'var' is full. As a result, the file /var/log/.vmsyslogd.err ...

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OWASP API Security Risks: What’s Ahead By Balaji Radhakrishnan, PMP, CISSP, Broadcom In the first two articles in this three-part series, we examined the top risks on 2023 OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks list. In this article, we’ll discuss what future lists may – or should – include and how enterprises can best protect themselves from these evolving risks. Future API risks: What can we expect? While it's difficult to predict what future OWASP API Security Risks lists will include, one thing is certain: both broken authentication and broken authorization—which topped the 2019 and 2023 lists—will remain persistent security challenges. Another risk ...

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PI Planning for PI40 is now complete and development has kicked off. Below you will find the list of items that are included in this PI and a summary of the releases completed in the previous PI. As always, we invite you to provide feedback. We would love feedback on both the current and future PI items to help us prioritize the items that will have the most benefit for our customers. Recent Releases The following product versions were released during PI39: • API Portal 5.3.2 - Release Notes Release and EOS Calendar The following image provides a timeline view of past and planned releases (future releases are prefixed with ...

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