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Introduction To Ansible Vault

DevOps, Security, Security Controls, ,

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi readers, in this blog we will be discussing Ansible vault. Also, we will be looking at how to encrypt different playbooks and how they can be decrypted. Introduction The “Vault” is a feature of Ansible that allows you to keep sensitive data such as passwords or keys protected at rest, rather than as plain text in playbooks or roles.  Why use Ansible Vault? Ansible Continue Reading

A Quick Guide through UFW – Uncomplicated Firewall

DevOps, linux, Security, Tech Blogs, , , ,

Reading Time: 4 minutes UFW, short for Uncomplicated Firewall, is basically a simplified firewall mechanism that is implemented upon iptables itself. As a result, making it much easier to configure ufw than to configure iptables. Therefore, it can be said that ufw is technically a program for managing a netfilter firewall which aims to provide an easy to use interface for the user. Need for UFW – uncomplicated firewall Continue Reading

Go Through with Rego components

Microservices, Security, , , ,

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, we’ll understand Rego that uses for declaring policy in OPA(open policy Agent). Rego is a declarative logic programming language, not a programming language. We can get content based on the policy defined by Rego as it’s declarative nature it has many benefits than the imperative language.

Encryption with PBKDF2

Java, Security

Reading Time: 4 minutes Passwords can be the most valuable data to an attacker because stolen passwords can provide attackers the ability to bypass most of the security perimeters that exists in the system. Since lot of people use the same password in several other systems, one system compromise can affect the security of other systems too. This is where we can use encryption as a solution for theses Continue Reading

Store Git Credentials Encrypted

DCOS, DevOps, Docker, github, linux, Project Management, Scala, Security, Tech Blogs, Tutorial, , , , , ,

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey folks in this blog post we would be looking over how we can store our git credentials in an encrypted format over linux remote servers, let’s first quickly have a look why we want to do it and what git provide us with as options. Git credentials helpers So git provide many types of credential helpers like Store The first and most basic type Continue Reading

Vault: A secure way to keep your App’s secrets

Scala, Security

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, we will discuss the Vault. In modern scenarios, we want to secure our system as much as possible. We don’t want to store our secret keys and certificates in the system or configurations. We need a place where we can keep our secrets with more security and access them securely whenever we need them. We can use the Vault. Vault is the Continue Reading

How to start with Vega : The web security scanner?

Security, Security Audit, Security Guidelines, Testing, Web, Web Application

Reading Time: 3 minutes Vega – Web security scanner and web security testing platform. Alright, Today I have come up with an interesting topic which is Vega and this blog is inspired by the last blog I wrote on web security. Vega is nothing but a tool, we will talk more about Vega in a while but let’s first talk ‘Why Vega’. So, next when you are done with your Continue Reading

Actions in Play Framework

Authentication using Actions in Play Framework

Play Framework, Scala, Security, Web, Web Application

Reading Time: < 1 minute Actions in Play Framework plays an important, the requests received by a Play application are handled by an Action. Action composition is an incredibly powerful way to enhance or restrict controller behaviour. In Play Framework controllers consist of methods that create Action objects to handle the incoming requests. A play.api.mvc.Action is basically a (play.api.mvc.Request => play.api.mvc.Result) function that handles a request and generates a result to be sent to the client. We can Continue Reading

SQL made easy and secure with Slick

Database, Scala, Security, Slick, SQL, Tutorial, , , , ,

Reading Time: 5 minutes Slick stands for Scala Language-Integrated Connection Kit. It is Functional Relational Mapping (FRM) library for Scala that makes it easy to work with relational databases. Slick can be considered as a replacement of writing SQL queries as Strings with a nicer API for handling connections, fetching results and using a query language, which is integrated more nicely into Scala. You can write your database queries Continue Reading

Configuring SSH Key Authentication on Linux

AWS, AWS Services, Security, Security Controls, Security Guidelines, , , , , ,

Reading Time: 3 minutes Now Days it is very convenient to use Remote Desktop Protocol(RDP) for accessing remote system over Internet, specially server systems(either client to server or server to server), although it is very convenient and easy way to access remote systems but it may cause big loss as it may provide an opportunity for remote attackers to guess logon credentials of client. There may present many ways Continue Reading

Handling HTTPS requests with Akka-HTTPS Server

Akka, akka-http, Scala, Security, Security Audit, Security Checklist, Security Controls, Security Guidelines, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi guys, In my last blogs I explained how one can create a self-signed certificate and KeyStore in PKCS12. You can go through the previous blog, as we’ll be needing certificate and keystore  for handling HTTPS requests. https://blog.knoldus.com/2016/10/18/create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-using-openssl/ https://blog.knoldus.com/2016/10/26/how-to-create-a-keystore-in-pkcs12-format/ Akka-HTTP provides both Server-Side and Client-Side HTTPS support. In this blog I’ll be covering the Server-Side HTTPS support. Let’s start with “why do we need server-side HTTPS support?” If we want the communication between the browser and Continue Reading

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