Welcome our fifth instalment in a series of blogs we are publishing each week, all under the title “Keep it safe: Sharing with Surevine”. In our first post we introduced the series, with our theme of Passwords, and focussed on Password Storage. In week 2 we took it one step further, and talked about Password … Continued
Welcome to our fourth instalment in a series of blogs we are publishing each week, all under the title “Keep it safe: Sharing with Surevine”. In our first post we introduced the series, with our theme of Passwords, and focussed on Password Storage. In week 2 we took it one step further, and talked about … Continued
This is our third instalment in a series of blogs we are publishing each week, all under the title “Keep it safe: Sharing with Surevine”. In our first post we introduced the series, with our theme of Passwords, and focussed on Password Storage. Last week we took one step further, and talked about Password Complexity. … Continued
This is the second instalment in a series of blogs we are publishing each week, all under the title “Keep it safe: Sharing with Surevine”. Last week we introduced the series, with our theme of Passwords, and focussed on Password Storage. Keeping the theme, but moving it on a step, this week we have… Password … Continued
Surevine don’t exist in a bubble, we need to do business with external companies and people. And to do business, we need to share information that we would quite like to keep between ourselves. While we have a carefully crafted IT policy (and some very clever security folk) to help prevent any leakage of information internally, … Continued
I just knocked up a simple proof of concept for ShellShocked to prove to myself what a danger it is. Prerequisites “Standard” apache install apache user having /sbin/nologin as his shell (not required, but considered best practice and you would think it might help mitigate the problem…) CGI scripts enabled Simple bash CGI script that echoes … Continued
Credentials Role Linux Systems Administrator Joined Surevine February 2012 The questions… What is your ‘alternative’ job title? root How would you sum up your role in one sentence? Managing everything that computes and the access to and from it. Who is your geek idol? J F Sebastian What are your OS and browser of choice? … Continued
Surevine work almost entirely in Amazon’s “Elastic Compute Cloud” (EC2). This means we don’t need to have our own building somewhere with a pile of servers and networking. It doesn’t mean that we don’t need to think about how we use that compute resource. Like everything else it suffers from supply and demand problems. Even … Continued
Surevine make a point of using open source products and indeed try to support the open-source community by encouraging employees to commit fixes to bugs back into public repositories and generally be good open source citizens. So I don’t want this to be read as an attack on all the people who give up their … Continued
One of the great things about working for Surevine is the careful avoidance of email. I know some of you are going to find that hard to understand or even imagine. But really, we don’t use email unless we really have to. And that probably means an average of less than once a day. I … Continued