by Ernie Souhrada | Apr 9, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
If you’ve been following this blog (my colleague, David Busby, posted about it yesterday) or any tech news outlet in the past few days, you’ve probably seen some mention of the “Heartbleed” vulnerability in certain versions of the OpenSSL...
by Ernie Souhrada | Nov 18, 2013 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security
This is part two on a two-part series on the performance implications of in-flight data encryption with MySQL. In the first part, I focused specifically on the impact of using MySQL’s built-in SSL support with some rather surprising results. Certainly it was...
by Ernie Souhrada | Oct 10, 2013 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
NOTE: This is part 1 of what will be a two-part series on the performance implications of using in-flight data encryption. Some of you may recall my security webinar from back in mid-August; one of the follow-up questions that I was asked was about the performance...