Access Control

Classification…DLP…Encryption…WHAT’S NEXT? Billions of dollars are spent annually on Cyber Security products, yet the threats and breaches continue to rise at unprecedented rates. On-going attempts to control the perimeter such as Applications, Devices and Networks — all become futile based upon the “perfect storm” of events: 1) External users working…

Postgres Login and change to database a. Change database postgres=# \c <DB_NAME> Create DDL roles and users. a. Create DDL role and user CREATE ROLE role_ddl; GRANT USAGE, CREATE ON SCHEMA public TO role_ddl; CREATE USER ddl_user WITH PASSWORD 'password'; GRANT role_ddl to ddl_user; b. Revoke other roles from DDL user. REVOKE SELECT…

This is part III of RBAC(Role Based Access) series. New setup Start MongoDB without access control. Open a terminal and issue the following: $ mongod --port 27017 Create the user administrator. The following creates the user myUserAdmin in the admin database with the userAdminAnyDatabase role and the readWriteAnyDatabase role. a. Change database use…

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One of the common problems with any startup is that early engineers have broad production access and over time the same is carried forward to new engineers, sometimes in the original unrestricted form and sometimes reduced but still wide enough to cause catastrophic changes in production. For an exponential growth…

What is Access Control? Access control is a security technique that manages the users or targets who can view or use resources in a computing environment. This is a basic security concept that minimizes the risk to your business or organization. The purpose of access control is to allow only authorized persons to enter…

The 2 most common access control paradigms are RBAC and ABAC. RBAC — Role based access control. ABAC — Attribute based access control. Organizations will employ both paradigms depending on their application maturity and use cases. However, under certain circumstances, RBAC and ABAC start to fail. …