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Ian McCloy is the Director of the Platform and Security Product Management Group for Couchbase and lives in the United Kingdom. His dedicated team is responsible for the Reliability, Availability, Serviceability and Security architecture of Couchbase Server and the SaaS Database, Capella. This team also own cloud-native platforms like the Couchbase Kubernetes Autonomous Operator. Ian has a vast range of experience as a Software Engineer, Technical Support Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer and Systems Administrator. Ian has led global technical teams for the majority of his 20 year professional career and holds several patents in the areas of information security, virtualisation and hardware design. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmccloy/

Security vulnerability CVE-2022-42889, Text4Shell

Security vulnerability CVE-2022-42889, Text4Shell

What is Text4Shell vulnerability? A critical severity security vulnerability affecting the Apache Commons Text library (CVE-2022-42889) Text4Shell that can be exploited and was made public on October 13, 2022. As soon as Couchbase became aware of this issue, we investigated...

Encrypted Private Keys & Multi-CA, Enterprise Security Enhancements In Couchbase Server 7.1

Encrypted Private Keys & Multi-CA, Enterprise Security Enhancements In Couchbase Server 7.1

Couchbase Server 7.1 introduces a range of security enhancements for TLS certificates. These are used to encrypt and decrypt data transmitted over the network and can also authenticate users. We’re excited to introduce four enhancements:  Multiple Certificate Authorities Encrypted TLS...

Couchbase Server On ARM, Supersonic Performance At Competitive Pricing

Couchbase Server On ARM, Supersonic Performance At Competitive Pricing

ARM v8 processors, traditionally found in the mobile phone space, are now gaining in popularity among desktop hardware vendors and major Cloud Service providers alike. ARM v8 processors offer better performance and reduced power consumption for reduced infrastructure costs over...

New RBAC Roles in Couchbase 7.0

New RBAC Roles in Couchbase 7.0

Couchbase Server version 7.0 introduces some important changes as part of the role-based access control (RBAC) authorization system.  Couchbase Server has allowed fine-grained access controls to the platform with RBAC for administrators since version 4.5 and all users since version...

Couchbase Server 7.0.2 Enforce TLS, HSTS & Enforce IP Address Family

Couchbase Server 7.0.2 Enforce TLS, HSTS & Enforce IP Address Family

In this blog post, I will introduce three new features in Couchbase Server 7.0.2 (“Server”) to help administrators deploy Couchbase Server in a secure manner: Enforce TLS, HSTS, and Enforce IP Address Family.  When deploying a Couchbase Server cluster, a...

What to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

What to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

A critical zero-day exploit, known as Log4Shell, affecting the Apache Log4j utility (CVE-2021-44228) was made public on December 9, 2021. As soon as Couchbase became aware of this issue, we investigated it immediately within our product and security teams, and...

Secure Your Data at Rest with LUKS Disk Encryption in Couchbase

Secure Your Data at Rest with LUKS Disk Encryption in Couchbase

Couchbase now supports LUKS disk encryption to secure your data at rest. How secure is LUKS? Couchbase 7.0 puts a big focus on security, debuting support for both role-based access control (RBAC) for Scopes and Collections, and encryption of at-rest...

Introducing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Security for Collections in Couchbase 7.0

Introducing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Security for Collections in Couchbase 7.0

Your data in Couchbase just got more secure. Couchbase Server 7.0 introduced Scopes and Collections to better map between relational and NoSQL data models. But the 7.0 release also includes some additional enhancements to strengthen the security of the data...

Deep Dive on Multi-Factor Authentication

Deep Dive on Multi-Factor Authentication

In this article I will explain what multi-factor authentication is, why you should be using it and how to easily implement it with Couchbase Server.  We’ll look at using both software and hardware implementations, which offer a tradeoff between cost,...

TLS 1.3 encryption arrives to Couchbase Server 7.0

TLS 1.3 encryption arrives to Couchbase Server 7.0

The Couchbase Server 7.0 Beta is now available with some additional enhancements to strengthen the security of the platform.  Couchbase uses TLS encryption across our portfolio to ensure communication across the network is secure, meaning that outside parties cannot eavesdrop...