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AWS CDK MFA

Post published:March 23, 2020
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / JavaScript / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
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The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) is a welcome contribution to the “Infrastructure as Code” family. It is a development framework that allows you to configure AWS resources using programming…

AWS CLI MFA

Post published:November 22, 2017
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
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AWS CLI MFA, how about that for title? It translates to Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface Multi Factor Authentication when all acronyms are spelled out. If you have enabled…

Replacing the default VPC in your AWS account

Post published:March 15, 2016
Post Author:Johan Nordenswan
Post Category:Architecture / Cloud / DevOps / Linux / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
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AWS Cloudformation is a super-powerful utility for defining entire backend infrastructures. Using it we can declaratively define infrastructure components and their inter-dependencies, then instantiate them all in one go. This…

Ubuntu full-disk encrypted, alongside MacOSX

Post published:November 22, 2015
Post Author:Hugo Josefson
Post Category:Linux / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:18 Comments

If you, like me, prefer to use Ubuntu on any hardware you use, and want it completely encrypted, this is for you. These are instructions on how to install Ubuntu…

Configure a Windows Azure cloud service to use your self signed certificates for IIS client certificate mapping authentication

Post published:April 21, 2015
Post Author:Elizabeth Andrews
Post Category:.Net / Cloud / Security / Web
Post Comments:7 Comments

This blog post will explain how to use self signed certificates with a Windows Azure cloud service and how to configure the Azure IIS server by code in the web…

Configure IIS to use your self signed certificates with your application including IIS client certificate mapping authentication

Post published:October 27, 2014
Post Author:Elizabeth Andrews
Post Category:.Net / Security
Post Comments:75 Comments

I'm now assuming that you read my previous post about how to create self signed certificates for development and it might’ve left you thinking “Yay great! ….But how do I…

Creating self signed certificates with makecert.exe for development

Post published:September 3, 2014
Post Author:Elizabeth Andrews
Post Category:.Net / Security
Post Comments:101 Comments

If you’ve ever had the need of creating self signed certificates you may start out feeling like it’s not a straightforward stroll in the park, so here is a blog…