Securing Parallels RAS: SAML and MFA, certificates, Device Posture, gateway hardening and critical security updates.
Everyone deploys one, nobody has ever opened it up. The HALB — High Availability Load Balancing — is that appliance you drop in front of the Secure Gateways, configure in two screens, and forget. I wanted to know what was inside, and above all to answer a question every architect asks: is it a fragile … Read more
A Parallels RAS Secure Gateway already scores A- on SSL Labs out of the box. One setting, HSTS, is all it takes to reach A+: here is how, and what to know first.
We test session recording in Parallels RAS 22: activation, targeting, capture quality, storage, retention and playback.
Parallels fixes a critical Linux kernel vulnerability in RAS 21.2 and 22.0 HALB appliances.
We tested Device Posture with RAS Clients 20.2, 21.2 and 22.0: available checks, policies, results and real-world coverage.
The RAS Management Portal (WebAdminService) listens on port 20443 by default, using a Parallels self-signed certificate. To replace it with…
The official Parallels KB 124815 covers the main steps but misses several critical points. This guide documents every error encountered in the lab, their real causes, and one point completely absent from the official documentation.
First of all, choosing the right encryption algorithm defines the security level of your VDI gateway. Indeed, many administrators still…
In almost every Parallels RAS project, the same question comes up early in discussions with network and security teams. Which…