Securing the container life-cycle

Cloud native design thinking has taken the world by storm and it definitely is the new standard for modern application development. This usually translates to the usage of popular Docker and Kubernetes platform with a service mesh architecture attained with Istio. The security of your workloads and data is a…

The future is already here, but it’s not evenly distributed — William Gibson Cloud computing was never meant to be vendor locked, but over the years it certainly is leaning that way. I certainly believe in a multi-hybrid cloud future and almost makes a conscious decision to be at-least aware…

Full Disclosure: I’m a full time developer who enjoys systems, networking and security and not from a DevOps/SysOps background. Although, this is an associate level certification, it is advisable that you have either cleared the Solution Architect (Associate) or Developer (Associate) exam prior to attending this exam. Having said that…

Before I begin giving out my study strategy and exam prep tips let me take this opportunity for doing a huge shout out to the folks at CNCF for doing a fantabulous job in devising such a practical and hands-on certification as compared to the MCQ format examinations. It’s also…

The default security settings of Amazon Linux 2 may not be the most strictest. In this brief write-up, I will try to explain how a couple of these configs can be hardened from a security perspective. Let’s get started… Upgrading OpenSSH to latest available version:

GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer — Preparation tips It’s always a great feeling when you achieve something new and double sweet when it’s a little challenging. This was precisely what I felt when I cleared my Professional Cloud Security Engineer (PCSE) certification from Google Cloud this week. …

Managing Advanced Permissions: You can find Part 1 of this series here. There are three advanced permissions — set user ID (SUID), set group ID (SGID) and sticky bit. Let’s look each of these permissions in detail: Sometimes a user would need special permissions just for execution of a certain…

Managing Basic Permissions: — Linux file/directory permission can be broken down as 3 columns each having three permissions (read, write and execute) grouped for three types (users, groups and others) There’s also an additional column at the beginning which would indicate if it’s either a directory or a link.