Cybersecurity in the Age of the Machine
Are you ready for a better security with no performance penalty? Are you ready for a performance bump that can take you places in search engine land? In other words: now that HTTP/2 reached production-grade maturity, nothing should hold you back.
The IoT revolution will make sure that only the paranoid survive.
If you launch an instance from the official CentOS or RHEL 7.x AMI on AWS, you will be running kernel 3.1 as of this writing. That’s not a good idea. You can easily take advantage of improved security features of newer kernels that are already available in a stable release. The renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman released the Linux Kernel 4.14.15, which includes important fixes for Spectre & Meltdown. Here is how to update your Linux kernel from 3.1 to 4.16 in place.
A web service called Report URI can be a great help in creating an HTTP security policy that will protect your web application without compromising its functionality. Here is how to set it up to bolster your defenses against code injection attacks.
Confused about SSL/TLS certificates? Here is a quick and dirty introduction to SSL/TLS encryption.
AWS and Microsoft, the two leaders in the race for the best cloud infrastructure, have recognized cyber security as a barrier of adoption. Cyber security professionals are weary of migrating workloads into public cloud environments as it may carry significant risks. Thus, Amazon and Microsoft have developed specialized services to help safeguard users’ cloud infrastructure and data.
This post discusses ways to mitigate cyber threats and launch a cyber defense on AWS and Azure.