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Bob Plankers

Product Management & Marketing, Broadcom

Bob Plankers has spent three decades leading teams that design, build, operate, and automate reliable & secure IT infrastructure, as both an end user and part of product development teams. He currently focuses on applied security, compliance, and resilience within VMware infrastructure platforms.

Author's Posts

Security & Compliance

Confidential Computing in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

Imagine a computer system as a nice apartment building. You have multiple layers of locks on the doors (defense-in-depth), security cameras in the hallways and...

Bob Plankers
August 6, 2025
Security & Compliance

Security in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

Bob Plankers
August 5, 2025
Security Advisories

VMSA-2024-0019: Questions & Answers

Bob Plankers, Kevin Hagopian, Monty Ijzerman, Praveen Singh
September 17, 2024
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Security with VMware Tools

Bob Plankers
July 14, 2020
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The Importance of Isolation for Security

Bob Plankers
July 7, 2020
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Signing Certificate is not Valid – Security Token Service Certificate Issue in vSphere

Bob Plankers
May 29, 2020
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vSphere 7 - Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) Deprecation

Bob Plankers
May 6, 2020
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vmx.reboot.PowerCycle Makes CPU Vulnerability Remediation Easy

Bob Plankers
October 8, 2019
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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 STIG & VMware vSphere

Bob Plankers
September 3, 2019
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vSphere Compliance: Common Criteria, NIST 800-53, and DISA STIG

Bob Plankers
June 21, 2019
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10 Things To Know About vSphere Certificate Management

Bob Plankers
June 4, 2019
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Which vSphere CPU Scheduler to Choose

Bob Plankers
May 14, 2019