Are my MySQL server connections encrypted and safe?
One of the greatest factors and fundamentals of data governance is security. It is a good practice to have database security implemented in place whenever you have your data management involved for enterprise or mass...
Importing or Changing Your SSL Certificate in ClusterControl
SSL encryption is clearly one of the must-haves for database deployments. It is required by all security standards and even if your organization does not have to comply with PCI DSS, HIPPA or other similar...
An Overview of PostgreSQL 13 libpq sslpassword Connection Parameters
PostgreSQL since long has supported SSL connections and also certificate-based authentication mechanisms. Although nothing in this regard seems to be new for the PostgreSQL world. However, a small nagging issue for client connection (client-certificates based...
MariaDB Server Database Encryption Basics
Encryption is one of the most important security features to keep your data as secure as possible. Depending on the data that you are handling, not always it is a must but you should at...
Full MariaDB Encryption At-Rest and In-Transit for Maximum Data Protection – Part Two
In the first part of this series, we have covered in-transit encryption configuration for MariaDB replication servers, where we configured client-server and replication encryptions. Taken from the first post, where we had partially configured our...
Full MariaDB Encryption At-Rest and In-Transit for Maximum Data Protection – Part One
In this blog series, we are going to give you a complete walkthrough on how to configure a fully encrypted MariaDB server for at-rest and in-transit encryption, to ensure maximum protection of the data from...
Setting up HTTPS on the ClusterControl Server
As a platform that manages all of your databases, ClusterControl maintains the communication with the backend servers, it sends commands and collect metrics. In order to avoid unauthorized access, it is critical that the communication...
SSL Key Management and Encryption of MySQL Data in Transit
Databases usually work in a secure environment. It may be a datacenter with a dedicated VLAN for database traffic. It may be a VPC in EC2. If your network spreads across multiple datacenters in different...
The Basics of MongoDB Configuration
After covering the deployment of MongoDB in our previous blogpost, we now move on to configuration basics. MongoDB is configured through both the config file (/etc/mongod.conf) and runtime. In the previous blogpost, we mentioned some...
Database Security – How to Fully SSL-Encrypt Your MySQL Galera Cluster
Data security is a hot topic for many companies these days. But for those who need to adhere to security standards like PCI DSS or HIPAA, security is not an option. We showed you sometime...
How-To and Performance Impacts of SSL-Encrypted Replication Traffic in Galera Cluster for MySQL
Deploying Galera Clusters across WAN environments might lead to concerns around data privacy and security - especially as more organisations are having to comply with national and international regulations. You would not want hackers eavesdropping...