Tag: Zero Trust

Guide to Installing and Configuring Vault

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Liquid Web | Updated: May 8, 2023

Category: Tutorials | Tags: ACL, Alert Logic, Algorithm, Algorithms, API, Audit, Backups, CentOS, Compliance, Compromise, Content Security Policy, Data Leak, Encryption, Fail2Ban, Firewall, Hacking, HashiCorp, HCL, HIPAA, IDS, Intrusion, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Detection System, JSON, Least Privilege, Linux, LUKS, Lynis, macOS, Malware, Master Key, Passphrase, Password, Password Policy, PCI, PCI Compliant, Pen testing, Permissions, Root, Secrets, Secrets Engine, Security, Security Policy, Security Practices, Server, Shamir's Secret Sharing, SQL Injection, Threat, Threat Stack, Tool, Ubuntu, Vault, VPN, Vulnerability, Window, Zero Trust

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What is Vault?

Vault protects and secures access to multiple types of confidential data. It stores and manages sensitive password information, API keys, and access tokens that exist in a low trust environment and generates dynamic access to authenticate users to ensure they have authorized ingress and availability to a file, location, service, or application.

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What is Blockchain? A Tutorial

Posted on February 4, 2021 by David Singer | Updated: August 21, 2023

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Audit, Authentication, Big Data, Block, Blockchain, Blocks, Chain, Compliance, Compromise, Content Security, Content Security Policy, Cryptographic Functions, Cryptographic Hash Function, Cryptography, Data Integrity, Data Management, Data Security, Decentralized, Decryption, Encryption, Fintech, Hard Fork, Hash, HIPAA, Least Privilege, Ledger, Linux, Mining, Node, Nodes, PCI, PCI Compliant, Peer to Peer, Permissions, Privacy, Security, Security Policy, Security Practices, Solution, Transaction, Vulnerability, Zero Trust

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The idea of blockchain itself may sound complicated, but the premise is simple. Blockchain is a zero-trust, fully decentralized peer-to-peer data storage system that spreads verified information across participants in the chain, referred to as nodes. Blockchain stores this information in blocks that are chained together. As new data arrives, it is recorded into a block. Once a block has been filled with information, it is linked to the previous block. This process allows the data to be bound together in sequential and chronological order.

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