Tag: security
Authentication With X.509 Certificates
Data security is an important aspect of every modern data platform. With micro-service based architectures becoming more of a common pattern across every high-scale app, existing password based authentication mechanisms for user authentication is hard to manage at scale, let...
Perry Krug
April 4, 2018
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 – Developer Build
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Developer Build It is my pleasure to share this early preview of Couchbase Server 5.5 features – there are some very exciting improvements coming and this Developer Build (DB) highlights several of them. There are many...
Tyler Mitchell
March 8, 2018
GDPR: Businesses must focus on digital transformation, not just tick-box compliance
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now a matter of months away. Vendors of all shapes and sizes are ramping up their GDPR scare stories (e.g. the potential fines) to trigger a response from businesses. Couchbase is taking a...
Perry Krug
February 6, 2018
Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities – Meltdown & Spectre
On Jan 3, 2018, Google’s Project Zero team along with several other university researchers identified several security issues with speculative execution, an optimization technique used in microprocessors to improve performance. Couchbase is aware of the recently disclosed class of processor/OS...
Secure Your NoSQL Data with Couchbase Role-Based Access Control
In a world where data leaks are becoming increasingly common, the need to harden the database and web applications becomes ever so important. I, like many other developers, came from working with relational databases such as MySQL and Oracle, where...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
October 30, 2017
Announcing Couchbase Mobile 1.5
Couchbase is pleased to announce that Couchbase Mobile 1.5 is now GA and available for download! Extend Couchbase Server Deployments to the Edge With Couchbase Sync Gateway 1.5, you can seamless extend an existing Couchbase Server deployment to connect with remote...
Sachin Smotra, Director Product Management, Couchbase
October 26, 2017
Securely Storing Password Data in Couchbase with Golang and BCrypt
When writing web applications that store passwords for your users, it is never a good idea to store them as plain text in your database, whether that be NoSQL or RDBMS. Last year I wrote about using BCrypt with Node.js...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
August 10, 2017
Authentication and Authorization with RBAC in .NET
Authentication and authorization are vastly improved in Couchbase Server 5.0. We’ve been blogging about the new RBAC features in the developer preview for a while. Authentication and Authorization with RBAC – introduction / part 1 Authentication and Authorization with RBAC...
Matthew Groves
May 31, 2017
Improved SDK Authentication Methods – Couchbase 5.0
Couchbase Server 5.0 delivers some great new authentication features that require some minor changes to your client connection code. The specific changes to the SDK are outlined in this post and also refer to changes made in the pre-release April Developer Build as...
Tyler Mitchell
May 1, 2017
Authorization & Authentication with RBAC (Part 2)
Authorization and authentication are important to Couchbase. In March, I blogged about some of the new Role Based Access Control (RBAC) that we are showing in the Couchbase Server 5.0 Developer Builds. This month, I’d like to go into a...
Matthew Groves
April 24, 2017
Authentication and Authorization with RBAC
In March’s developer build, you can start to see some major changes to authentication and authorization within Role Based Access Control (RBAC) coming to Couchbase Server. These changes are a work in progress: the developer build is essentially a nightly...
Matthew Groves
March 17, 2017
Announcing Couchbase Server 4.6 – What’s New and Improved
Couchbase delivers the Couchbase Data Platform that powers Web, Mobile, and IoT applications for digital businesses. With our newest release, Couchbase Server 4.6 provides the availability, scalability, performance, and security that enterprises require for their mission-critical applications. What’s New and...
Anil Kumar, Director Product Management, Couchbase Cloud-Native Database
February 16, 2017