Docker Security Considerations – PART I
Why Docker Security Matters
It is a fact that Docker has found widespread use during the past years, mostly because it is very easy to use as well as fast and easy to deploy when compared with a full-blown virtual machine. More and more servers are being operated as Docker […]
In the last few days, there has been information released about yet another alleged data leak, placing in jeopardy “…[the] personal information on hundreds of millions of American adults, as well as millions of businesses.” In this case, the “victim” was Exactis, for whom data collection and data security are core business functions.
Some takeaways […]
Let them stay together.
In the last YEARS, I have seen quite often that users, when installing a product such as PXC, instead of spending five minutes to understand what to do just run
iptables -F and save.
In short, they remove any rules for their firewall.
With this post, I want to show you how easy […]
In this third and final post of the series, we look at how to configure transport encryption on a deployed MongoDB replica set. Security vulnerabilities can arise when internal personnel have legitimate access to the private network, but should not have access to the data. Encrypting intra-node traffic ensures that no one can “sniff” sensitive […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how to turn on binlog encryption in Percona Server for MySQL.
Why do I need this?
As you probably know, Percona Server for MySQL’s binlog contains sensitive information. Replication uses the binlog to copy events between servers. They contain all the information from one server so that it can be […]
