When distributing bundled software, you have multiple options, but if we exclude fancy newcomers like Docker and Kubernetes, you’re left with the following options: an installer (for Windows), a packageContinue reading
Security questions still exist. They are less dominant now, but we haven’t yet condemned them as an industry hard enough so that they stop being added to authentication flows. ButContinue reading
Last month Ben Brumm asked me for the one advice I’d like to give to developers that are working with databases (in reality – almost all of us). He publishedContinue reading
I’m trying to get the Wazuh agent (a fork of OSSEC, one of the most popular open source security tools, used for intrusion detection) to talk to our custom backendContinue reading
OpenSSL is an omnipresent tool when it comes to encryption. While in Java we are used to the native Java implementations of cryptographic primitives, most other languages rely on OpenSSL.Continue reading
Elasticsearch is great, but optimizing it for high load is always tricky. This won’t be yet another “Tips and tricks for optimizing Elasticsearch” article – there are many great onesContinue reading
Terminology-wise, there is a clear distinction between two-factor authentication (multi-factor authentication) and two-step verification (authentication), as this article explains. 2FA/MFA is authentication using more than one factors, i.e. “something youContinue reading
I’d like to share something very brief and very obvious – that compression works better with large amounts of data. That is, if you have to compress 100 sentences you’dContinue reading
There are hundreds of different information security solutions out there and choosing which one to pick can be hard. Usually decisions are driven by recommendations, vendor familiarity, successful upsells, complianceContinue reading
“Encryption” has turned into a buzzword, especially after privacy standards and regulation vaguely mention it and vendors rush to provide “encryption”. But what does it mean in practice? I didContinue reading