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  Matt's Life Bytes The Heartbleed issue is actually worse than it might immediately seem (and it seems pretty bad already). In case you’ve been out of the loop, Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) is a vulnerab...

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• Protecting internal applications with a SAML-aware reverse-proxy (a tutorial) – Matt's Life Bytes

  A tutorial for creating a SAML-aware, rate-limited reverse-proxy for protecting internal applications using a combination of Apache 2, mod_auth_mellon, and ModSecurity.

• Cattle, not pets: infrastructure, containers, and security in our new, cloud-native world – Matt's

  Servers are cattle, not pets. This not-so-new-but-increasingly-referenced mantra for running infrastructure comes with a number of reliability and security benefits. This blog post is intended to help...

• The missing piece: the need for product management in security teams – Matt's Life Bytes

  Security teams are receiving more headcount, tooling, and organizational support than ever before... so why are we still miserable? In this blog post, I will make the argument that a lack of product m...

• Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN!) – Matt's Life Bytes

  A little over a year ago, my employer threw away our VPNs in production and production-like server environments and moved towards a set of new, cutting-edge technologies that make remote access simple...