Category: Security
Using Couchbase Autonomous Operator on GKE
We are excited to announce release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.2. This is landmark release marking several features requested by customers, mainly Automated Upgrade of Couchbase Clusters Integrated CouchbaseCluster Resource Validation via Adminission Controller Helm Support Public Connectivity for Couchbase...
Ram Dhakne
May 6, 2019
Spring Security & Dynamic Client Registration | OAuth Part 3
We already discussed how to configure an OAuth 2.0 authentication and how to build a custom token store. In the last article of this series, you will learn how to implement a custom dynamic client registration using spring-security-oauth2. I recommend you...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
September 25, 2018
How to Create a Custom Token Store for Spring-Security-Oauth2 | OAuth Part 2
In the previous blog post, we discussed how to configure a simple OAuth2 authentication. However, our implementation has a major flaw in it: we are using an in-memory token store. In-Memory token stores should be used only during development or...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
September 21, 2018
How to Configure OAuth2 Authentication With Spring-Security-Oauth2
As you might have noticed in my previous blog posts, I am a big fan of Spring + Java and Spring + Kotlin. Consequently, whenever I need to implement an OAuth 2.0 authentication, spring-security-oauth2 lib is a natural choice. However,...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
September 20, 2018
Couchbase Server 5.5 Released
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Couchbase Server 5.5 production release is now available! We are very excited to share more information about this substantial extension of the Couchbase Data Platform. This release introduces several new Enterprise Grade features relating to agility,...
Tyler Mitchell
July 23, 2018
JWT Authentication with GraphQL, Node.js & Couchbase NoSQL
A few months ago when I had first started learning about GraphQL, I had written a previous tutorial for using it with Couchbase and Node.js. The tutorial focused on the basics which included creating GraphQL objects and querying those objects...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
June 28, 2018
Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta – now available!
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta This release is an extension of the Couchbase Data Platform but also introduces several new Enterprise Grade features – agility, performance, and manageability – all based on critical feedback from our customers. Included are many...
Tyler Mitchell
April 16, 2018
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
Couchbase Server 5.5: Log Redaction
With security already a hot topic in the data space, the Couchbase Server 5.5 release introduces a new feature – “Log Redaction”. Logs are an important part of every platform. Logs are used for multiple purposes ranging from security, to monitoring,...
Perry Krug
March 13, 2018
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...
Tyler Mitchell
March 8, 2018
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 Processor Vulnerabilities – Performance Impact Analysis
Last week, we published a blog with recommendation on securing Couchbase data platform in response to industry-wide security vulnerabilities. We continued to analyze the potential performance impact caused by the patched OS binaries and this blog post captures the detailed evaluation. As...