Category Archives: Security

AWS Single Sign-On with AzureAD: Single Sign-On with SAML

How to connect Azure AD Single Sign-On to an AWS account? The second part of the series goes over the specifics, gotchas and the I-spent-so-many-hours-I-should-have-known-earlier. All AWS resources in this example will still be created manually to make things more understandable. Full automation with Terraform and Terragrunt will follow in subsequent posts of this series.

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Secure mysqldump script with encryption and compression

You plan to make secure and automated mysql database backups on your server? There is a lot more to it than just using mysqldump from inside cron. Don’t step into the pitfalls many people do and risk to compromise all of your databases. What makes a well designed and secure database backup script? For that

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