Questions tagged [security]

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Security is a key element of any system that acts to protect information and infrastructure:

  • Information Security is the practice of preventing unauthorised access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information.

  • IT Security is the practice of preventing unauthorised access, use, modification or destruction of IT Assets.

  • DevSecOps or DevOpsSec is the practice of integrating security into the deployment pipeline using automation and dynamic risk assessment processes.

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Running the docker daemon without root

Inspired by What are best and comprehensive practices to consider when running docker in production? , I stumbled over Why we don't let non-root users run Docker... They came up with docker run -ti --privileged -v /:/host fedora chroot /host ,…
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Company is worried about exposing our PII to Tableau, Can we run Tableau without exposing our data to any 3rd parties?

I'm looking to understand a bit more from the technical side about how Tableau (The company itself) works with the data that everyone is providing them. My company is looking to use Tableau as our main visualization tool as we grow larger, but we…
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How do you add user secrets to a deployment without having them to source control?

I am developing applications that require user secrets to function. These credentials should not be stored in source control due to security concerns. Instead, they need to be manually created by the user or generated via a deploy script, with the…
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Weird requests filling apache access logs

I'm running a public apache2 webserver. I'm getting a lot of this kind of requests on my webserver: 91.251.142.16 - - [07/Mar/2020:19:58:09 +0100]…
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