As the number of remote workers grows, virtual private networks (VPNs) are becoming a popular way to grant remote access to employees while hiding online activities from attackers. With a VPN, your organization can secure network traffic between your site and users by creating an end-to-end secure private network connection over a public network. In this article, you will learn how a VPN works, what protocols are needed, what challenges are involved, and what alternatives are available.

Whether you’re a startup, an e-commerce company, or a large corporation, as long as you handle credit card transactions, you need to be aware of and comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). As online commerce and online payment technology continue to grow, they need to be accompanied by new rules and regulations to make sure that both the business and the customers are safe and secure.

Securing databases is a significant aspect of an organization’s infrastructure and security practices. This article explores the methodologies and steps for securing MongoDB Database, a popular non-relational, flexible, and document-oriented database. Before starting, you should understand the difference between self-hosted MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas.

This blog post explores the traditional authentication and authorization processes to AWS Management Console, and how Teleport can replace them to further secure and audit your Infrastructure Access for AWS. You can access your AWS Management Console through a variety of methods. If a user has AWS Administrator or Root Access, they can see and edit all infrastructure in its entirety. AWS has multiple tools available to mitigate access, but are they enough?

Kubernetes is a tool used by many developers and DevOps administrators to deploy and manage containerized applications, and it has become a default tool for container orchestration in many organizations.

This blog is part two of a series about identity-aware access for Amazon RDS. In Part I, we covered how to use OSS Teleport to access Amazon RDS instances running in private subnets. In Part II, we will guide you through the steps to configure single sign-On (SSO) for Amazon RDS with Okta, SAML and Teleport.

"Create cryptographically secure access keys" and "Rotate keys frequently" — These are probably the best security recommendations one can get for bot authentication security. In reality, while these are good practices, they simply aren't enough. First, cryptographically secure keys only prevent simple guessable or brute-force attacks, but the impact is catastrophic if the keys themselves are stolen.

Containers are used for packaging software and all its dependencies before deployment. Before the era of containers, software developers had to deal with compatibility issues during deployment. These could occur when software functions properly during the development phase but fails to function due to dependency issues in the production environment. With containers, however, all the software dependencies used for development can be shipped and used in the production environment.

Databases are sensitive resources that need an additional layer of protection and security. Though database servers have built-in authentication and authorization mechanisms, they are not designed for cloud-based, multi-tenant access mechanisms. Managed databases such as Amazon RDS are accessed and administered by different personas with varying levels of access permissions.

I have news to share. Teleport has just secured $110M in Series C funding to keep growing the business that I started with my co-founders Sasha Klizhentas and Taylor Wakefield in 2015. This is exciting for founders and employees, but I think it is also excellent news for all software engineers who are crying out for a better way to manage secure access to their mission-critical cloud infrastructure. More on that below.

This blog post covers some of my favorite settings for configuring the behavior of an ssh client (i.e. what is in the man pages for ssh_config). Whether you are looking to add some additional security constraints, minimize failures, or prevent carpal tunnel, ssh_config is an often underutilized, yet powerful tool. While the examples in this article focus on ssh configurations on unix based systems like linux and macOS, running an ssh server on windows is supported using openSSH.

Every Kubernetes developer’s favorite time of year is just around the corner, Kubecon EU 2022! Whether you’re attending in person in beautiful Valencia, Spain, or watching the conference from your couch at home, here are a few reasons why — if you operate any Kubernetes infrastructure — you need Teleport.