Teleport 6.0 Brings Identity-Aware Access to Databases Behind NAT
If you have PostgreSQL or MySQL databases running behind NAT in multiple environments, this release of Teleport is worth downloading and playing with.
If you have PostgreSQL or MySQL databases running behind NAT in multiple environments, this release of Teleport is worth downloading and playing with.
0:00 Introduction
0:26 Deployment Overview
1:31 Why use Teleport?
2:05 tsh setup
3:37 psql demo
4:25 Teleport Audit log
5:21 fleund Overview
6:01 Kibana Demo
6:35 Learn more at https://goteleport.com/database-access/
#postgres #mysql #teleport
According to Risk Based Security’s 2020 Q3 report, around 36 billion records were compromised between January and September 2020. While this result is quite staggering, it also sends a clear message of the need for effective database security measures. Database security measures are a bit different from website security practices. The former involve physical steps, software solutions and even educating your employees.
Egnyte is a unified platform to securely govern content everywhere. We manage billions of files and petabytes of content. One of the core infrastructure components powering such a scale is called MDB or metadata database. It is a cluster of hundreds of MySQL instances storing billions of metadata records. It stores information about files, versions, folders, custom metadata, and their relationships.
As a security analyst, engineer, or CISO, there are so many aspects of the field that require immediate attention that one cannot possibly know everything. Some of the common areas of security knowledge include topics such as where to place a firewall, configuration and patch management, physical and logical security, and legal and regulatory concerns.
For anyone managing a SQL Server database, understanding permissions is critical to ensuring that only authorized users are able to view and modify data. This article explains the different types of SQL Server permissions, including server-level and database-level user permissions, and provides guidance on how to manage them.
IT is a thrilling world, full of unpredictable cybersecurity threats. Databases in particular are a place where you always need to watch out for perils and pitfalls. With Halloween fast approaching, we offer some hair-raising database stories to make you feel the terrifying spirit of the holiday.
In the pantheon of open source heavyweights, few technologies are as ubiquitous as the MySQL RDBMS. Integral to popular software packages like WordPress and server stacks like LAMP, MySQL serves as the foundational data platform for a vast majority of websites and cloud services on the internet today. Unfortunately, its popularity translates to more commonly known attack vectors and security exploits —the following are 11 ways to shore up MySQL security and protect your data more effectively.
Hackers are once again finding unsecured MongoDB databases carelessly left exposed on the internet, wiping their contents, and leaving a ransom note demanding a cryptocurrency payment for the data’s safe return. As ZDNet reports, ransom notes have been left on almost 23,000 MongoDB databases that were let unprotected on the public internet without a password. Unsecured MongoDB databases being attacked by hackers is nothing new, of course.