Category: Security HowTo’s

Forcing staff web browsers to use the company proxy is critical for logging and auditing Internet usage and activity. The question is, which method of configuring web browsers to use a proxy is best? When it comes to configuring web browser proxy setting, we have 4 options: Configure the proxy

This article demonstrates how to configure the Confluence “server.xml” file when using Confluence behind an Apache Reverse Proxy on “HTTPS://”. Confluence runs on Tomcat which uses the “server.xml” for its basic settings. The following is a working example of the “server.xml” file when Confluence is running behind a secure (SSL/HTTPS)

This article demonstrates how to configure an Apache server as a reverse proxy for Confluence. Confluence runs on Tomcat (out of the box) and listens on TCP port 8090 without encryption. Our goal is to listen on port 80 and redirect the connection to port 443 so our reverse proxy

This is a short HowTo explaining the process of restoring files from backups previously created with Veeam. Note that the repository must be accessible – obviously. List previous backups: veeamconfig backup list Show the list of restore points that are available to restore files from: # Where ‘BackupID’ is derived

This article explains how to work with PGP keys. PGP keys come in pairs – a private key and a public key. Private keys are to be kept secret to the owner while public keys can be shared with the world. We’ll be using GnuPG otherwise known as GPG which

Recently the Australian government had a garage sale and sold filing cabinets full of secret documents. The person that purchased the cabinets discovered the secret documents and passed them onto the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the ABC. ASIO (the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) visited the ABC to provide them with a

This is possibly the single most important change you can make to your web server “vhost” to improve security to the entire server. PHP can do anything it likes to your server that the user it runs as can. In other words, it can read your “/etc/passwd” file, your filrewall