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Back Up and Running in Cloud Native
Finally had the time to rebuild and refresh the blog site. mekena.io in now full Cloud Native running in AWS (has always been, however in a more traditional server-based installation). The recent migration included an AWS Lightsail service that provides various bundles of OS/applications, which in my case is WordPress running on Linux. Various tiers…
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DNS Security
Well this is an interesting approach by Google to counter DNS cache poisoning effectiveness. https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/google_dns_queries/ If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it’s not a ransom note, it’s a security improvement.
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Tech Audits
What systems do security and availability audits cover? A fair question! Well, the hard truth is that it is your responsibility to identify this as a system owner; and not the duty of an auditor. Don’t sit around waiting for auditors to show up and expect them to answer this question. Simply put, everything and…
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Multilingual Passwords
Benefits of being multilingual in the world of technology: Passwords are so simple to remember, yet meet every password complexity policy being 12 characters long, alphanumeric, Upper case, and special characters 😄
