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Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash

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.
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Photo by Jonathan Chng on Unsplash

Quick UDP Internet connections

The UDP-based Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol comes with mandatory TLS encryption and promises faster speeds.
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Lead Image © bloomua, 123RF.com

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.
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Lead Image © JPaget RFphotos, 123RF.com

Diving into infrastructure security

How to deal with threat intelligence on the corporate network when the existing security tools are not effective.
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Photo by Eric Froehling on Unsplash

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.
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Photo by saeed karimi on Unsplash

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.
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Lead Image © Andriy Popov, 123RF.com

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.
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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.