Trigger arbitrary code from PostgreSQL
In this blog post we show how it is possible to run an arbitrary program, script, or execute arbitrary code in reaction to changes and generally events in a PostgreSQL database.
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Vulnerability Management - Intro to Torq Webinar
As recent vulnerabilities like log4j have shown, having a standardized approach to identifying vulnerabilities and applying patches is essential to organizations looking to keep their systems safe from exploits. Whether it's preventative maintenance or responding to new 0-days, a continuous vulnerability management program ensures that security teams can rapidly identify risks and work cross-functionally to deploy patches and verify successful remediation.
CFEngine: The Agent Is In 11 - Infrastructure Hardening With CFEngine & Lynis
"CFEngine: The Agent Is In" is our monthly webinar series, where we show new features, teach best practices, and keep the community informed about everything CFEngine.
What's New: Updates to On-Call Management, Incident Response, Event Intelligence, Process Automation, and More!
We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to PagerDuty’s Digital Operations Platform. Recent updates from the product team include On-Call Management and Incident Response, Process Automation, to PagerDuty Community & Advocacy Events. New capabilities enable users and customers to resolve incidents faster, do the following, and more.
Five Considerations for Choosing Self-Managed Automation vs. SaaS Automation
Sometimes heritage is better than new. Some people favor Coca-Cola Classic over New Coke, and heirloom tomatoes over regular tomatoes. Some Luddites might say the same thing about cloud computing. “I won’t put my (app/data) in the cloud! It will be more (secure | reliable | cheaper) if I run it myself in my own data center.”
Change in behavior: Directory permissions and the execute bit
rxdirs has provided a convenient default when setting permissions recursively. When enabled (the default prior to version 3.20.0) a promise to grant read access on a directory is extended to also include execution since quite commonly if you want to read a directory you also want to be able to list the files in the directory. However, the convenience comes with the cost of complicating security reviews since the state requested on the surface is more strict than what is actually granted.
Getting started with CFEngine Pt. 1.5 - Local installation with vagrant
This video tutorial shows you how you can use vagrant and virtualbox to create a virtual machine locally, for use with CFEngine. If you are using DigitalOcean or another cloud provider, as shown in Part 1, this part can be skipped.
Get your Puppet fundamentals free with new instructor-led training
Want to land one of the 20,000 jobs calling for Puppet experience? Or perhaps you already know Puppet but want to advance your skills in order to scale your infrastructure even more quickly and securely? Starting this May, we’re making it easier than ever for you to learn Puppet with an all-new instructor-led curriculum and the opportunity to take all of our Fundamental Core instructor-led training for free.
The next step in Puppet content telemetry
We previously published a blog about the rollout of telemetry for Puppet content back in December 2021. (Read that here.) We’d like to follow up with some important news and an exciting announcement.