Google Cloud Operations suite is a collection of tools to monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance the performance of your cloud infrastructure or application. Previously, you may have known it as “Stackdriver.” As a part of its offering, it provides end-to-end monitoring solutions using the Google Cloud Monitoring toolset. You can choose to use it for free or pay for it if you want to get rid of the limits to the uptime-check configurations added....

HTTP protocol violation protection Common web attacks Bots, crawlers, malicious activity protection Trojan protection Information leakage protection Cross Site Scripting attacks SQL injection attacks Do you agree? In my previous post, I explained how to install Nginx and Mod Security and as promised here is how you can configure them with OWASP CRS for better security. ModSecurity is open source Web Application Firewall (WAF), and by default, it’s configured to detect only....

Not only that, but this will also result in land emails in the SPAM box when SPF missing. Lately, I performed a Vulnerability Scan on my website through Detectify and found this critical item to fix. It’s essential to have an SPF record for your domain to avoid your emails getting landed in the SPAM folder or avoid email spoofing. Let’s take a look at the following online tools to test the SPF records....

Google hopes to make smartphones the center of customers’ everyday lives and activities by delivering digital car keys. Assuming that your phone has Android 12 or higher, like Samsung Galaxy S21, you can easily download the digital car key applications on it. However, the Google team hopes to develop the digital car key application further for smartphones with other versions of Android as well. If you have a compatible car and an Android 12 phone, keep reading to learn how to pair them so you can unlock your car without having to take out the key....

We will also talk about some of the alternatives to the orchestration tools other than Kubernetes. We will further go and dig the comparison between Docker Swarm and Kubernetes in detail. What is Docker? It might look to an unripe eye that developing an app is all about writing a strong code. But the real challenge lies in dealing with multiple languages, working on different frameworks and managing disrupted interfaces between the tools....

According to Microsoft Developer Network, HttpOnly & Secure is an additional flag included in the Set-Cookie HTTP response header. Using HttpOnly in Set-Cookie helps in mitigating the most common risk of an XSS attack. This can be either done within an application by developers or implementing the following in Tomcat. As a best practice, take a backup of configuration file before modifying and if the possible test in non-production to ensure it doesn’t break the application....

The e-commerce business has been booming rapidly for quite a while, and it will probably increase even more post-COVID-19 situations. According to Statista, worldwide eCommerce sales amounted to $3.53 trillion in 2019. And it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.1% from 2020 to 2024. Unlike brick-and-mortar shops, the setting of an online store is easy and inexpensive. You can start your eCommerce shop, even with no experience and limited budget at your hands, all thanks to the modern technologies around....

In today’s article, you’ll learn what it is, how to use it, online ping tools, and some practical examples. First of all, let’s see what ping is. Ping is a Terminal / Shell command utility used as a simple way to verify that a machine has internet access and can communicate with other computers or network devices. Some of the functions of the ping command are : Test network connectivity: local network, internetTroubleshoot network interface cardTest DNS name resolution issues...