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Understanding DNS with an overview of AWS Route 53

Understanding DNS with an overview of AWS Route 53

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The Domain Name System (DNS) functions like a phone directory. Instead of looking up a person’s name to find their phone number, your computer looks up a domain name to find the corresponding IP address. This process involves several types of DNS servers, including recursive resolvers, root nameservers, TLD nameservers, and authoritative nameservers like Google 8.8.8.8 or Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 or your home router that forwards DNS query to your Internet Provider’s DNS Server. For example, if we run nslookup command…

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Tricks using Cloud #2: Secure SSH connection to on-premise servers

Tricks using Cloud #2: Secure SSH connection to on-premise servers

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In this episode, we learn how to secure connections to own on-prem servers using cloud tools like AWS Systems Manager. We’re talking about SSH and RDP connections, that are two protocols used for connecting to Linux or Windows O.S. These protocols can be easily attacked and someone with bad intentions can connect to your environments and – for example – encrypt your files and ask for ransom in bitcoin. Most secure action is to deny definitely from corporate network or…

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How can you make the cloud secure?

How can you make the cloud secure?

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Nowadays, cloud computing has become an integral part of business operations, but with these benefits, comes the critical need for robust security measures. By ignoring them, have impact also in our private life. Most of us have own vacations photos or any other photos as backup in the cloud, and thinking that these could be hacked, it drives us crazy. Fortunately, the shared responsibility model ensures that both cloud service providers (CSPs) and customers work together to maintain a secure…

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