Cyber security, infotech
Once provisioned, forever forsaken… far too many cloud resources–be it IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, you name it, XaaS–may be uselessly nibbling away at your or your clients’ budget. Unless your goal is to tighten the belt by hook or by crook, you need a clear view of what is needed and what is not. Before you pull the plug, obviously.
The versatile advantages of NVMe are becoming increasingly apparent in modern storage systems. You can take advantage of them in the cloud.
SELinux can be such a nuisance. In particular, if you have a newly created file system, you will need to add labels to it, also known as SELinux security contexts.
It doesn’t take rocket science to set up and run a web server in the AWS cloud. Here is a down-to-earth, step-by-step primer for adventurous newbies.
[Updated 2022-11-30] This post explains how to set up robust security headers in NGINX to protect your web application from malicious payloads and other forms of attacks. Choose your HTTP(S) headers wisely.