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July 22, 2020
Percona Audit Log Plugin and the Percona Monitoring and Management Security Threat Tool
The Security Threat Tool has been available since Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6.0 (PMM) and starting from that first release [...]
July 8, 2020
On-Demand Webinar: Securing MongoDB
MongoDB, like most any other commercial database you might care to name, has these five security subsystems: Authentication Authorization Network [...]
July 1, 2020
Webinar July 14: How Percona Monitoring and Management Improves Database Security
Data breaches seem to be a daily occurrence, so much so that seeing an article about the latest company to [...]
June 29, 2020
Security Threat Tool Design in Percona Monitoring and Management
Security Threat Tool (STT) is the new Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) feature. It provides the ability to run automated [...]
June 25, 2020
Top 7 Reasons Why Security Goes Wrong In A Database System
Today I’m going to talk about my favorite trope, “database security”. When done right, a good security policy not only [...]
June 12, 2020
Brute-Force MySQL Password From a Hash
In most cases, MySQL password instructions provide information on changing MySQL user passwords on the production system (e.g., reset root [...]
June 11, 2020
MySQL Escaping on the Client-Side With Go
Day-to-day database operation requires, from an administrator, deep knowledge of db internals and security issues, in particular things like SQL [...]
June 4, 2020
PostgreSQL Security Missteps and Tips
Security, when done right, not only protects your data but improves performance, system stability, and enhances the development life-cycle. Because [...]
June 3, 2020
Improving MySQL Password Security with Validation Plugin
In systems nowadays, improving security is a must! One of the weakest links in the security system is the user [...]
April 21, 2020
Using Vault to Store the Master Key for Data at Rest Encryption on Percona Server for MongoDB
Since the release of Percona Server MongoDB 3.6.13 (PSMDB), you have been able to use Vault to store the encryption [...]
April 15, 2020
What’s the Best Way to Enable (And Test) Encryption at Rest in RDS?
The other day on a call, a client asked me an interesting question. We were discussing some testing they were [...]
April 2, 2020
ProxySQL 2.0.9 Introduces Firewall Whitelist Capabilities
In this blog, we will test a new security feature added in ProxySQL 2.0.9. Since a time ago, we have [...]
February 19, 2020
MySQL Encryption: How Master Key Rotation Works
In the last blog post of this series, we discussed in detail how Master Key encryption works. In this post, [...]
January 7, 2020
How Securing MySQL with TCP Wrappers Can Cause an Outage
The Case Securing MySQL is always a challenge. There are general best practices that can be followed for securing your [...]
January 6, 2020
Data Masking in Percona Server for MySQL to Protect Sensitive Data
Starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.17, Percona Server ships with a data masking plugin, using the same API as [...]
December 19, 2019
MySQL Encryption: Master Key Encryption in InnoDB
In the previous blog post of this series, MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings, I described how keyrings work. In this [...]
December 9, 2019
MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings
It has been possible to enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in Percona Server for MySQL/MySQL for a while now, but [...]
October 28, 2019
Setting up MongoDB with Member x509 auth and SSL + easy-rsa
Hi everyone! This is one of the most requested subjects to our support team and I’d like to share the [...]
September 25, 2019
Incident Involving Percona Forums on September 24, 2019
Summary On September 24, 2019, Percona’s IT and IT Security teams were made aware of a denial of service attack [...]
July 30, 2019
Network (Transport) Encryption for MongoDB
Why do I need Network encryption? In our previous blog post MongoDB Security vs. Five ‘Bad Guys’ there’s an overview [...]