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Load test your website with Siege
A stress and benchmarking tool for websites controlled from the command line.
Versioned backups of local drives with Git
Versioning is a recommended approach to back up files as protection against hardware failures and user errors. To create versioned backups, you can use established backup programs or an open source tool that originates from the developer world: Git.
Encrypt and decrypt files with Age or Rage
Age and Rage are the Go and Rust implementations of a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool.
Quick UDP Internet connections
The UDP-based Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol comes with mandatory TLS encryption and promises faster speeds.
Policy rulesets in cloud-native environments
What a user is allowed to do in a program is usually defined by a role model, which often poses numerous challenges, especially in the cloud or for infrastructure as code. The free Open Policy Agent offers a flexible way to manage user rights.
Diving into infrastructure security
How to deal with threat intelligence on the corporate network when the existing security tools are not effective.
Goodbye virtual machines, hello microVMs
You can have your cake and eat it, too: MicroVMs feature the strong isolation of virtual machines and lightweight behaviors of containers.
DNS name resolution with HTTPS
Now that web content is encrypted by HTTPS, the underlying name resolution is often unprotected. We look at the classic DNS protocol and investigate whether DNS over HTTPS could be the solution to ensure the confidentiality of DNS requests.
A central access manager for SSH, Kubernetes, and others
Teleport centrally manages logins against various protocols, including SSH, Kubernetes, and databases. Functions such as two-factor authentication are included in the scope of delivery, as is management of your own certificates.
Detect anomalies in metrics data
Anomalies in an environment's metrics data are an important indicator of an attack. The Prometheus time series database automatically detects, alerts, and forecasts anomalous behavior with the Fourier and Prophet models of the Prometheus Anomaly Detector.
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