Category: Security
Skipping default bucket creation
Some days ago I made the following search: “databases unprotected”. It is really incredible the number of databases deployed without authentication. Most of them are just test databases published on the internet, but others are exposing sensitive data. (Image Licensed through...
Manuel Hurtado, Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
August 22, 2016
Configuring IPsec for a Couchbase Cluster
Introduction Some Couchbase deployments require secure communications between nodes across the network, this could be due to reasons like data governance policies or regulatory compliance. Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a protocol suite for secure Internet Protocol (IP) communications by...
Tim Wong
July 15, 2016
Protect Your Data while Migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL
Note: this is a guest post by Michael Rothschild of Vormetric. The only constant in life is change, and those of us in technology know this to be true. Technologies that were experiments just five years ago are now de-facto...
Don Pinto, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase
June 23, 2016
Securing Couchbase Server using Let’s Encrypt x.509 Certificates
Summary Securing data and access to data for application data is an important step in securing your environment for client applications and database protection in any sized environment. One of the simplest methods to secure data is the access path...
Austin Gonyou, Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
June 22, 2016
Watching SCRAM authentication in Java
SCRAM authentication is one of the new features in version 4.5. Check this blog entry for an introduction on SCRAM in Couchbase. In this article we will cover how to monitor SCRAM handshake from Java. First, you do not have...
The Couchbase Team
May 27, 2016
Containers, Security, Double Dipping
One of the common misconception about containers is that they act as light VMs. Which would make you think they are perfectly isolated. It's not true. While they all give you some level of isolation, they all share a common...
Laurent Doguin, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
May 27, 2016
Improved security in Couchbase 4.5: SCRAM-SHA
Security is important to us, here at Couchbase. I'd like to draw your attention to a new security feature in Couchbase 4.5 that might otherwise go unnoticed: SCRAM-SHA (pronounced like 'scram-shaw'). (Scram Image Licensed through Create Commons via...
Matthew Groves
May 25, 2016
Anti-Virus False Alarms and Couchbase
Anti-virus software can sometimes cause major headaches for developers trying to play with a new technology. Over time, we heard about many ways anti-virus software can interfere with Couchbase. This blog explains the commonly seen issues, the precautionary steps that...
Don Pinto, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase
January 30, 2016
How to Authenticate Couchbase with Windows Active Directory (via LDAP)
This blog was originally posted on Roi Katz’s personal blog site. Please click here to find the original post. Hi all! So you want to authenticate users access to Couchbase through your Active Directory LDAP service. Couchbase has that ability. You can...
Roi Katz, Solution Architect, Couchbase
January 5, 2016
The Security Tipping Point
We are really excited about our partnership with Vormetric and welcome the below guest blog post by Michael Rothschild from Vormetric. I remember in the heady days of the dot.com boom where people were just migrating off their 56.6K...
Don Pinto, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase
December 16, 2015