Tag: security

Authentication With X.509 Certificates

Authentication With X.509 Certificates

Data security is an important aspect of every modern data platform. With micro-service based architectures becoming more of a common pattern across every high-scale app, existing password based authentication mechanisms for user authentication is hard to manage at scale, let...

Perry Krug April 4, 2018
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 – Developer Build

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 – Developer Build

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Developer Build It is my pleasure to share this early preview of Couchbase Server 5.5 features – there are some very exciting improvements coming and this Developer Build (DB) highlights several of them. There are many...

GDPR: Businesses must focus on digital transformation, not just tick-box compliance

GDPR: Businesses must focus on digital transformation, not just tick-box compliance

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now a matter of months away.  Vendors of all shapes and sizes are ramping up their GDPR scare stories (e.g. the potential fines) to trigger a response from businesses. Couchbase is taking a...

Perry Krug February 6, 2018
Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities – Meltdown & Spectre

Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities – Meltdown & Spectre

On Jan 3, 2018, Google’s Project Zero team along with several other university researchers identified several security issues with speculative execution, an optimization technique used in microprocessors to improve performance. Couchbase is aware of the recently disclosed class of processor/OS...

Secure Your NoSQL Data with Couchbase Role-Based Access Control

Secure Your NoSQL Data with Couchbase Role-Based Access Control

In a world where data leaks are becoming increasingly common, the need to harden the database and web applications becomes ever so important. I, like many other developers, came from working with relational databases such as MySQL and Oracle, where...

Announcing Couchbase Mobile 1.5

Announcing Couchbase Mobile 1.5

Couchbase is pleased to announce that Couchbase Mobile 1.5 is now GA and available for download! Extend Couchbase Server Deployments to the Edge With Couchbase Sync Gateway 1.5, you can seamless extend an existing Couchbase Server deployment to connect with remote...

Securely Storing Password Data in Couchbase with Golang and BCrypt

Securely Storing Password Data in Couchbase with Golang and BCrypt

When writing web applications that store passwords for your users, it is never a good idea to store them as plain text in your database, whether that be NoSQL or RDBMS. Last year I wrote about using BCrypt with Node.js...

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC in .NET

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC in .NET

Authentication and authorization are vastly improved in Couchbase Server 5.0. We’ve been blogging about the new RBAC features in the developer preview for a while. Authentication and Authorization with RBAC – introduction / part 1 Authentication and Authorization with RBAC...

Matthew Groves May 31, 2017
Improved SDK Authentication Methods – Couchbase 5.0

Improved SDK Authentication Methods – Couchbase 5.0

Couchbase Server 5.0 delivers some great new authentication features that require some minor changes to your client connection code.  The specific changes to the SDK are outlined in this post and also refer to changes made in the pre-release April Developer Build as...

Authorization & Authentication with RBAC (Part 2)

Authorization & Authentication with RBAC (Part 2)

Authorization and authentication are important to Couchbase. In March, I blogged about some of the new Role Based Access Control (RBAC) that we are showing in the Couchbase Server 5.0 Developer Builds. This month, I’d like to go into a...

Matthew Groves April 24, 2017
Authentication and Authorization with RBAC

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC

In March’s developer build, you can start to see some major changes to authentication and authorization within Role Based Access Control (RBAC) coming to Couchbase Server. These changes are a work in progress: the developer build is essentially a nightly...

Matthew Groves March 17, 2017
Announcing Couchbase Server 4.6 – What’s New and Improved

Announcing Couchbase Server 4.6 – What’s New and Improved

Couchbase delivers the Couchbase Data Platform that powers Web, Mobile, and IoT applications for digital businesses. With our newest release, Couchbase Server 4.6 provides the availability, scalability, performance, and security that enterprises require for their mission-critical applications. What’s New and...