Of Daffy Bastards And Goofy F*cks In The Land Of The Lost: Integration Anti-Patterns From The Dark Side
Some organizations keep following the same legacy, bad practices even though they know better. They keep doing it right up until the unfortunate happens.
SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY: CI/CD/CT PIPELINES AND SECURITY TOOLS — PART 2
This is part two of a two part blog post on Software Supply Chain Security. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, starting there is recommended.
SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY: CI/CD/CT PIPELINES AND SECURITY TOOLS — PART 1
The DevOps movement of the last decade more-or-less led to the DevSecOps movement of this decade. This focus on automation to create efficient, end-to-end software publishing pipelines combined with incidents like the SolarWinds Hack in 2020 and the recent ‘S1ngularity’ attack on the NPM ecosystem…
Practical Business Continuity For The Small Organization
For the small business owner, should the power going out mean you can’t make money? Should the computer system going down for 20 minutes mean a restaurant can’t take or cook orders any longer? Some basic level of preparation for anything other than ideal circumstances and commonsense needs to be…
Practical Business Continuity
For the small business owner, should the power going out mean you can’t make money? Should the computer system going down for 20 minutes mean a restaurant can’t take or cook orders any longer? Some basic level of preparation for anything other than ideal circumstances and commonsense needs to be…
Datastore Security Requirements
This post will introduce a generic set of database / datastore security requirements that be used as a starting point when developing a database security strategy.
Delegation — A General Discussion
This blog post expands on delegation and related concepts introduced in my Kerberos Delegation blog post. It also brings together two blog series I’ve been working on over the years: SAML2 vs. JWT Series and Kerberos and Windows Security Series. Delegation is a critical building block of end-to-end…
Kerberos and Windows Security: Delegation
In this next post in the Kerberos and Windows Security Series, we are going to explore a very useful, but abstract feature of the Kerberos Authentication Protocol: Delegation. In particular, we are going to focus on the Windows implementation of this feature. Delegation allows downstream actors to…
HTTP POST vs GET: Is One More Secure For Use In REST APIs?
The use of HTTP POST vs HTTP GET for read-only (or query) operations in REST APIs recently came up in a conversation. For this particular shop, there had been a long-standing ban on the use of GET requests for use in homegrown applications. This had been the case since before REST APIs were in…
Application Security Models
I like to start system design (at the application level) with the security model that will be used to protect the system. Application security models have several attributes that need to be addressed at each layer of the application.
How To Submit Your Security Tokens to an API Provider, Pt. 2
This post was originally published as “How to Submit Tokens to an API Provider, Pt 2” on the Apigee Blog.
How To Submit Your Security Tokens to an API Provider Pt. 1
This post was originally published as “How to Submit Tokens to an API Provider, Pt 1” on the Apigee Blog.