This December, we are posting security advice and modules, every day until December 25th. Now, it’s December 21st, and we’ve gotten through most of the security hardening holiday calendar: Week 1 & 2 summary (1-14/25) We posted summaries for the 2 first weeks of the calendar: Week 1 …
In January of 2021 Qualys security researchers discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in sudo, an extremely common tool installed in most Unix and Linux operating systems. Sudo allows users to execute programs with the privileges of another user but the vulnerability allows any unprivileged user …
This December, we are posting security advice and modules, every day until December 25th. Now, it’s December 14th, and we’ve gotten to the fourteenth day of the security hardening holiday calendar: Week 1 summary (1-7/25) If you didn’t see it yet, we posted a summary last week. …
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.19.0! In 2021, for this release, and the launch of CFEngine Build, our focus has been on collaboration. We want to deliver a lot of value to our users through modules, and enable you to share and cooperate on policy, promise types, …
This year we decided to provide security focused modules and content for the holiday season. These are parts of the security configuration we implement on our own infrastructure, based on OpenSCAP and other sources. By putting these into easy to use modules and writing about it, we hope to give our …
Join us as we embark on an adventure to create and publish a new CFEngine Build module. Nick (Doer of Things) demonstrates he knows the proper offerings the gods require by writing and publishing a new CFEngine Build Module from scratch, live, with no safety net! Video The video recording is …
With the release of build.cfengine.com, I have been working to migrate some of our own security related policy into modules of their own. CFEngine Build and the cfbs tooling allows us to organize policy into modules, which are easy to update independently and share with other users. Let’s take …
Have you ever wondered how a site was designed and how the ideas were conceptualized into the final result? If your answer is yes, you are in the right place! In this post, I will show you our journey to create our latest website, CFEngine Build. From start to finish, how did we do the design and …
Manually managing groups on a large infrastructure can be a tedious task, and is therefore best suited through automation software like CFEngine. Unfortunately - at time of writing - CFEngine does not have any built-in promise types for managing groups. But fear not; in CFEngine 3.17, custom promise …
Come see what’s new in CFEngine policy management! Herman (Product Manager) introduces and demonstrates new tooling, the CFEngine Build System (cfbs). cfbs is a command line tool to facilitate policy management and consuming modules written by others. Video The video recording is available on …
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