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Ian McCloy is a Principal Product Manager for Couchbase and lives in the United Kingdom. He focuses on security features across the Couchbase portfolio of on-prem, cloud and edge products. Ian has a vast range of experience as a Software Engineer, Technical Support Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer and Systems Administrator. Ian has lead global technical teams for the majority of his 20 year professional career and holds several patents in the areas of information security, virtualisation and hardware design.

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New RBAC Roles in Couchbase 7.0
Couchbase ServerN1QL / QuerySecurity

New RBAC Roles in Couchbase 7.0

Couchbase Server version 7.0 introduces some important changes as part of the role-based access control (RBAC) authorization system.  Couchbase Server has allowed fine-grained access controls to the platform with RBAC for administrators since version 4.5 and all users since version...

January 13, 2022
Couchbase Server 7.0.2 Enforce TLS, HSTS & Enforce IP Address Family
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Couchbase Server 7.0.2 Enforce TLS, HSTS & Enforce IP Address Family

In this blog post, I will introduce three new features in Couchbase Server 7.0.2 (“Server”) to help administrators deploy Couchbase Server in a secure manner: Enforce TLS, HSTS, and Enforce IP Address Family.  When deploying a Couchbase Server cluster, a...

December 14, 2021
What to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
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What to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

A critical zero-day exploit, known as Log4Shell, affecting the Apache Log4j utility (CVE-2021-44228) was made public on December 9, 2021. As soon as Couchbase became aware of this issue, we investigated it immediately within our product and security teams, and...

December 13, 2021
Secure Your Data at Rest with LUKS Disk Encryption in Couchbase
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Secure Your Data at Rest with LUKS Disk Encryption in Couchbase

Couchbase now supports LUKS disk encryption to secure your data at rest. Couchbase 7.0 puts a big focus on security, debuting support for both role-based access control (RBAC) for Scopes and Collections, and encryption of at-rest data via Linux Unified...

September 9, 2021
Introducing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Security for Collections in Couchbase 7.0
Couchbase ServerN1QL / QueryScopes and Collections

Introducing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Security for Collections in Couchbase 7.0

Your data in Couchbase just got more secure. Couchbase Server 7.0 introduced Scopes and Collections to better map between relational and NoSQL data models. But the 7.0 release also includes some additional enhancements to strengthen the security of the data...

August 5, 2021
Deep Dive on Multi-Factor Authentication
Best Practices and Tutorials

Deep Dive on Multi-Factor Authentication

In this article I will explain what multi-factor authentication is, why you should be using it and how to easily implement it with Couchbase Server.  We’ll look at using both software and hardware implementations, which offer a tradeoff between cost,...

February 23, 2021
TLS 1.3 encryption arrives to Couchbase Server 7.0
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TLS 1.3 encryption arrives to Couchbase Server 7.0

The Couchbase Server 7.0 Beta is now available with some additional enhancements to strengthen the security of the platform.  Couchbase uses TLS encryption across our portfolio to ensure communication across the network is secure, meaning that outside parties cannot eavesdrop...

December 14, 2020