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July 12, 2019
MongoDB Security vs. Five ‘Bad Guys’
Most any commercially mature DBMS provides the following five ways to secure the data you keep inside it: Authentication of [...]
July 11, 2019
Docker Security Considerations Part I
Docker Security Considerations – PART I Why Docker Security Matters It is a fact that Docker has found widespread use [...]
April 18, 2019
MySQL-python: Adding caching_sha2_password and TLSv1.2 Support
Python 2 reaches EOL on 2020-01-01 and one of its commonly used third-party packages is MySQL-python. If you have not [...]
March 12, 2019
Upcoming Webinar Thurs 3/14: Web Application Security – Why You Should Review Yours
Please join Percona’s Information Security Architect, David Bubsy, as he presents his talk Web Application Security – Why You Should [...]
March 5, 2019
Upcoming Webinar Thurs 3/7: Enhancing MySQL Security
Join Percona Support Engineer, Vinicius Grippa, as he presents his talk Enhancing MySQL Security on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 at [...]
February 18, 2019
Deprecation of TLSv1.0 2019-02-28
Ahead of the PCI move to deprecate the use of ‘early TLS’, we’ve previously taken steps to disable TLSv1.0. Unfortunately at [...]
February 6, 2019
Percona Responds to MySQL LOCAL INFILE Security Issues
In this post, we’ll cover Percona’s thoughts about the current MySQL community discussion happening around MySQL LOCAL INFILE security issues. [...]
December 21, 2018
Percona Server for MongoDB Authentication Using Active Directory
This article will walk you through using the SASL library to allow your Percona Server for MongoDB instance to authenticate [...]
November 20, 2018
How CVE-2018-19039 Affects Percona Monitoring and Management
Grafana Labs has released an important security update, and as you’re aware PMM uses Grafana internally. You’re probably curious whether [...]
November 1, 2018
WiredTiger Encryption at Rest with Percona Server for MongoDB
Encryption has become an important function in the database industry, as most companies are taking extra care to keep their data safe. [...]
October 12, 2018
Track PostgreSQL Row Changes Using Public/Private Key Signing
Authorisations and encryption/decryption within a database system establish the basic guidelines in protecting your database by guarding against malicious structural [...]
September 24, 2018
Backing up Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled
To use Percona XtraBackup with keyring_vault plugin enabled you need to take some special measures to secure a working backup. [...]
September 21, 2018
Securing PostgreSQL as an Enterprise-Grade Environment
In this post, we review how you can build an enhanced and secure PostgreSQL database environment using community software. We [...]
September 17, 2018
Using the keyring_vault Plugin with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7
This is the first of a two-part series on using the keyring_vault plugin with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7. The [...]
September 14, 2018
Encryption of the InnoDB System Tablespace and Parallel Doublewrite Buffer
In my last post I compared data at-rest encryption features available for MySQL and MariaDB. As noted at the time, [...]
September 10, 2018
Using ProxySQL to connect to IPv6-only databases over IPv4
It’s 2018. Maybe now is the time to start migrating your network to IPv6, and your database infrastructure is a [...]
August 23, 2018
Comparing Data At-Rest Encryption Features for MariaDB, MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL
Protecting the data stored in your database may have been at the top of your priorities recently, especially with the [...]
August 9, 2018
Lock Down: Enforcing AppArmor with Percona XtraDB Cluster
Recently, I wrote a blog post showing how to enforce SELinux with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). The Linux distributions derived [...]
July 6, 2018
Another Day, Another Data Leak
In the last few days, there has been information released about yet another alleged data leak, placing in jeopardy “…[the] [...]
June 27, 2018
Webinar 6/28: Securing Database Servers From External Attacks
Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist Colin Charles on Thursday, June 28th, 2018, as he presents Securing Database Servers From External [...]