All posts by priyanknarvekar

Hi I am Priyank Narvekar. I was born in Mumbai, India, and moved to St. John’s, Newfoundland to attend Memorial University where I recieved my B.Eng. in Computer Engineering in 2013, MBA in 2018 and MSc Comp Sci in 2024. I have been working as a Software Engineer at IBM Canada for the past 14 years. Other than work and school, my interests include dogs - all of them, travelling (11 countries so far and counting), hiking and camping, playing (not watching) sports , binge watching netflix and long drives.

Building a Public Gateway FQDN Firewall with Squid Transparent Proxy in IBM Cloud VPC

In today’s cloud-driven world, securing virtual environments is paramount. As businesses migrate to cloud infrastructures like IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), the need to manage and secure egress traffic effectively becomes a critical concern. One effective method is building a public gateway Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) firewall using a Squid Transparent Proxy. This…

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