How can I work with secrets using CFEngine? Craig (Digger) demoed cf-secret and how he uses it for protecting secrets used to mount LUKS encrypted drives. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop the recording for a nice and relaxed, off-the-record chat …
Looking for ways to improve the security of your infrastructure? Craig (Digger) and Nick (Doer of Things) walk us through some of the policies shared during the 2021 CFEngine security holiday hardening calendar. Video The video recording is available on YouTube: At the end of every webinar, we stop …
This is the final summary of our 2021 security hardening holiday calendar. We wanted to provide educational, useful, and actionable security advice, and we’re really pleased with the reception! Thank you for reading and following along. Week 1-3 summary (1-21/25) We posted summaries for the 3 …
The internet has been ablaze since the announcement of Log4Shell, the nickname for CVE-2021-44228, an arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability in the Java logging utility Log4j. So far two additional vulnerabilities (CVE 2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105) have been identified. If you are interested in …
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 …
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 …
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