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VSHN 17.08.2023
Advantage

For the past 4 years, VSHN has collaborated with aspectra in the provision and management of OpenShift infrastructure for their customers, ensuring security and availability 24/7. VSHN has chosen Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium as the default...

Edina Gallos 06.06.2023
aspectra Newsletter 2023/2

What new rules apply to the handling of personal data as of 1 September? How to you prepare pragmatically for the correct implementation of the new Swiss Data Protection Law? And what's the latest from our customer projects and how are we organizing...

Roberto Perez 13.04.2023
Highlights of Windows Server 2022 - from the hoster's perspective

The hosting of systems on Windows Server 2022 is not uncharted territory for aspectra. We showcase in this article some of the most salient improvements of this upgrade.

Norbert Benz 16.03.2023
Without SPF record no mail to Gmail

Authentication of the sender domain with SPF is a must if you want your emails to reach private Gmail accounts. Otherwise they will not be delivered by Google. How to fix this? We explain.

Edina Gallos 06.01.2023
aspectra Newsletter 2023/1

Discover why the future is passwordless and what it takes to make that happen. Learn about new projects and employees at aspectra, and what we are doing this winter instead of hibernating - all this and more, in this issue.

Norbert Benz 17.08.2022
Akamai Scrubbing Centers in Switzerland

Following Infosecurity Europe in London, Roger Barranco, Vice President, Global Security Operations, Akamai Technologies, visited Switzerland. We had the chance to meet him and get answers to some of the most pertinent questions about the current...

Edina Gallos 08.06.2022
aspectra Newsletter 2022/1

How aspectra protects secrets and why that is so important, about long-standing relationships and new tasks, and what we have planned for the summer of 2022, when we are not busy managing your IT services - all this and more, learn in this issue.

Edina Gallos 28.03.2022
And the winner is… Who's the Airlock-Partner 2021?

Cyber security is closely tied to Airlock by Ergon. Tens of thousands of applications with millions of different user identities run reliably and securely with its help. Aspectra has been selling, counselling, installing and operating Airlock for...

Norbert Benz 15.02.2022
Google Analytics illegal in the EU

Following on from Austria, France has now also declared Google's web analytics service non-compliant with the GDPR. The reasons, the consequences and the alternatives.

Ueli Kiefer 15.12.2021
Getting things done, with Atlassian

With home office now an integral part of our everyday working lives, Jira has become an indispensable tool, especially when it comes to the efficient handling of workflows and customer tickets. But we would not want to do without Jira's sister,...

Kaspar Geiser 18.11.2021
Shhh...KMS: A clever solution to hold all your secrets

Keys and certificates are used routinely and widely in IT environments to secure the transmission and encryption of data. In order to manage the multitude of keys and certificates efficiently, a central key management system (KMS) is essential.

Edina Gallos 05.11.2021
aspectra Newsletter 2021/2

Why Managed OpenShift is as versatile as a Swiss Army knife, how our team has grown recently and what has been going on in our customer portfolio.

Kaspar Geiser 06.09.2021
Why we support Let's Encrypt

Secure data transmission and the protection of privacy are fundamental factors for a safe Internet. We at aspectra are also committed to these values and practice them, thorough our services, on a daily basis. A donation to Let's Encrypt was...

Ueli Meierhofer 26.08.2021
OpenShift 4: What's new?

OpenShift 4 is packed with new features that will make developers' hearts beat faster. The Enterprise Kubernetes distribution is now available in version 4.7 at aspectra.

Norbert Benz 30.06.2021
U.S. clouds a no-go? Part 2

The world's largest technology companies turned into surveillance brokers for U.S. authorities.