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Fixing your Web Server’s Security Headers: From Hall of Shame to Hall of Fame

Cloud Insidr 2020-12-04 4 Comments

Fixing your Web Server’s Security Headers: From Hall of Shame to Hall of Fame

[Updated 2020-12-04] This post explains how to set up robust security headers in NGINX to protect your web application from malicious payloads and other forms of attacks. Choose your HTTP(S) headers wisely.

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Filed Under: cloud, edge and everything in between, cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, NGINX, Uncategorized, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: clickjacking, CSRF, HPKP, HSTS, MITM, x509, XSS

Letsencrypt tips and tricks

Cloud Insidr 2019-07-22 2 Comments

Letsencrypt tips and tricks

Who wants to issue certificates manually if they can take Letsencrypt’s Certbot to the task.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, NGINX, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: certbot, certificate, letsencrypt

TLS 1.3 and its implications for cyber security

Cloud Insidr 2018-10-04 Leave a Comment

TLS 1.3 and its implications for cyber security

The rise of Quantum computing and the cloud is rewriting the rules of what constitutes “encrypted” communications — with profound implications for the cyber security of our homeland.

“The cyber threat landscape is shifting in real-time, and we have reached a historic turning point,” said Kirstjen Nielsen, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, in a recent statement. “It is clear that our cyber adversaries can now threaten the very fabric of our republic itself.”

Cybersecurity incidents and data breaches of recent years seem to provide evidence of an invisible warfare raging across the industrialized world with financial, energy and communications systems covertly under constant threat. At the same time, the dependence on data integrity and the reliability of critical infrastructures, particularly cyber physical systems in the military, is growing in importance by the day.

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Filed Under: encryption, homeland security, Uncategorized

How to redirect all http to https in NGINX

Cloud Insidr 2018-09-06 Leave a Comment

How to redirect all http to https in NGINX

When setting up https on an existing server, you need to provide a redirect for all those visitors arriving via http backlinks. Here is how to do this.

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Filed Under: encryption, NGINX Tagged With: HTTPS, NGINX, permanent redirect

Fixing DNS: why you need a Trusted Recursive Resolver and DNS over HTTPS

Cloud Insidr 2018-06-06 Leave a Comment

Fixing DNS: why you need a Trusted Recursive Resolver and DNS over HTTPS

The DNS system is broken. The sorry state of DNS security exposes your server and your end users to a variety of risks. Some of those risks are preventable.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, DNS, encryption Tagged With: DNS, DNS checks, DNS over HTTPS, encryption

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