Database JDBC URL: Short And Secure For years, Oracle SQL*Net offered a secured connection to the database and a prevalent unencrypted one. With the Zero Trust Architecture, that is no longer an option; you should get ready for end-to-end encryption in any environment, including your workstation.
Security Python: Testing Secure Connections Security control validation and enforcement are tasks we have regularly. We have created a small Python application that simplifies socket tests
Oracle Database Database: Rolling Password Change Recently, I've found about great Oralce Database 21c feature: Gradual Password Rollover. Here is the best part it was backported to the Database 19c.
Git Git: From SSH to Personal Access Tokens Accessing remote repositories over SSH is a convenient, reliable, and secure way to sync your local and remote repositories. However, architectural changes and security requirements encourage moving from SSH to HTTPS/TLS protocols.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Scans: Hide and Seek Oracle recently made a gift to all middleware engineers who operate in "security-first" environments. Government contractors should love it as much as I do, especially if you are adopting or already have continuous ATO.
OCI OCI: Secure Load Balancer It started as a routine wildcard certificate renewal and updating on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It usually takes about 20 minutes, but not today when the certbot offered me a private key update.
Oracle HTTP Server Mysterious TLS in Oracle HTTP A little "forget-me-not" from a recent Oracle HTTP server troubleshooting, but it could happen to Apache HTTPD as well. To set up a stage: a work installation of the Oracle HTTP Server, stop presenting certificates on the secured port.
Keycloack Keycloack: configure frontend URL It's turned out that my free tier VMs are powerful enough to run a standalone Keycloack [https://www.keycloack.org/]server. I'm not a big fan
OpenSSL Quick Certificate Validation Check certificate validity for a site; what could be easier? It's a click away if the address of interest is in your browser. Learn how you can check expiration dates for multiple Learn how you can check expiration dates for multiple host or virtual hosts with SNI.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Enforce HTTPS With OCI Load Balancer To enforce secure connection you should enforce rewrite rules to rout your clients toward secure listener. The same could be done with load balancer in Oracle Cloud.
WebLogic Speeding up WLST Back in Java 7 days, when your WebLogic domain runs like a snail on a sunny meadow, you knew that you forgot to fix your random source. It is not
Red Hat Too much security: Is it a thing? What I love about Red Hat classes, you get a live environment . This time, my new lab was partially unavailable. I click on the link, glimpse the application page, and then I get a protocol error page.