Database Hardening
Nowadays, any serious application needs a database to store information. DBMS allows you to save data, quickly find and retrieve what you need using queries. But in order…
Security - Articles for December 2024 year
Read interesting articles and reviews for December 2024 year. Analysis of key events in the "Security" sector
Attacks on GitHub developer in 2024
The "Platform Engineering" trend proposed by analytical agencies has become interesting not only to companies that transform their processes, teams, and tools according…
Hiding VMware from malware
Methods for detecting malicious code are improving, as is the malicious code itself. In the past, antivirus systems used signature analysis to detect viruses, but now…
Inventing IAM for the MWS cloud: introduction and resource model
My team and I decided to create a cloud. Not the kind of cloud that says "move your files to the cloud," and not even the kind that says "deploy your site on our CMS,…
How to promote IT solutions to a bored audience?
My name is Damir Gibadullin, product manager of the "Digital Headquarters" system. My experience in selling IT solutions and broad outlook have combined and crystallized…
What determines the security of a quantum network? Part 1
Quantum key distribution [1] is one of the most rapidly developing areas in modern science. The most important advantage of QKD is the security of personal data transmission…
Positive Technologies: «We invented it ourselves, paid for it ourselves, produce it ourselves, and suffer ourselves». How PT NGFW was created
I have already done material on domestic NGFW from one of the cyber security companies, so I decided to continue the practice and talk about other NGFWs. And in May 2024…
Silent Wazuh — tuning, event minimization, notifications in Telegram
Recently, I finally got around to studying Wazuh - to make the learning process useful, I set it up for testing in a small hospital and identified the tasks it should…
"Element of Selling". Interview with an Internet Advertising Specialist
Immediately after the laws on changing the laws on liability for improper handling of personal data were passed, we at IDX, like everyone who deals with personal data,…
CHP, banks and trees on a scale of 160 to 1: the history of creating a layout for the Standoff cyber battle
The Gramota.ru portal claims that "A layout is an object that accurately reproduces in a reduced size or full size any other object."
How we accelerated the solution of our machine learning task by participating in the Big Mathematical Workshop
Hello, tekkix! We at the Security Analysis Department of the "Astra Group" recently had our first experience participating in the Big Mathematical Workshop, and we would…
Implementation of the "Magma" cipher in RUST
Hello! Today we continue to implement encryption. In this article, we will look at the Magma cipher algorithm, which was developed and used in the USSR.
Configuration-as-Code
Over the past decade, we have realized that manually performing investigation and response processes limits us in speed, which greatly affects our ability to handle the…
Pentesting terminals
On the vast expanses of the network, you can find many publications on the topic of conducting various pentests: stages, tools used, results obtained, reporting, etc.
How to securely erase sensitive information from a database
Why securely erase data at all? The main thing is that the user cannot retrieve it through the DBMS interface. Who cares about data remnants in files, it's not a problem.…
UserGate 7: test results + migration from old versions
In this article, I will talk about a relevant issue for many — migration from UserGate 6 to version 7. After the departure of foreign developers from the Russian market,…
Two camps of C++
There are currently many debates and discussions about the future of C++.
Making a smartphone a Push-To-Talk radio, calling a dispatcher, or sending an SOS with one touch. Review of XCover7 and MIL-STD-810H
The very first Samsung rugged device appeared back in 2011. It looks like a reinforced case and a replaceable battery, which extends the life of the smartphone, but it's…
