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...
How To Achieve PCI Compliance for MySQL & MariaDB with ClusterControl – The Replay
Watch and listen to Laurent Blume, Unix Systems Engineer & PCI Specialist and Vinay Joosery, CEO at Severalnines, as they discuss all there is to know about how to achieve PCI compliance for MySQL &...
Ten Tips on How to Achieve MySQL and MariaDB Security
Security of data is a top priority these days. Sometimes it’s enforced by external regulations like PCI-DSS or HIPAA, sometimes it’s because you care about your customers’ data and your reputation. There are numerous aspects...
How to Secure MySQL/MariaDB Servers
After attacks on MongoDB databases, we have recently also seen that MySQL servers are being targeted by ransomware. This should not come as a surprise, given the increasing adoption of public and private clouds....
wtmp Log Rotation Settings for Sudo User in ClusterControl
Requires ClusterControl. Applies to all supported database clusters. Applies to all supported operating systems (RHEL/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu). ClusterControl requires a super-privileged SSH user to provision database nodes. If you are running as non-root user, the corresponding user...
A Guide to MySQL User Management
Requires ClusterControl 1.2.11 or later. Applies to MySQL based clusters. In this example we will look at how you can use ClusterControl to create a user and assign privileges to the user. We will create...
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...
Integrating ClusterControl with FreeIPA and Windows Active Directory for Authentication
Integrating ClusterControl with a corporate LDAP directory is a common task for many IT organizations. In an earlier blog, we showed you how to integrate ClusterControl with OpenLDAP. In this post, we will show...