We are happy to announce the ability to share infrastructure between accounts in a secure way. You can also define what actions you can take against those shared resources giving you fine grain control. This new functionality will allow you to share various sets of resources with one or more other accounts. We call each policy an Access Control List …
Automatically Inject SSH Keys into your Cloud Servers Using This Simple Bash Script
You can use bash to automate many things for your cloud servers. At CloudSigma we use bash scripts with many of our library images to automate useful features. In this post we share with you how you can use bash to import SSH keys automatically on boot-up of your cloud servers. You can achieve this by combining bash scripts with …
Five Security Measures CloudSigma has taken to keep you safe
The complexity of cloud infrastructures makes it difficult for customers to assess the security level of their cloud provider in any great detail. So, below is a list of the key security measures which CloudSigma as a major public cloud IaaS provider has taken to keep you, the customer, safe. These sit alongside the structural measures that keep customer cloud …
How to securely use BitTorrent Sync for backups
A while back I wrote a guest post on BitTorrent’s blog about how to use BitTorrent Sync as an alternative to cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Box. As a result, this post is an expansion of that post that provides more clear step-by-step instructions on how to securely deploy BitTorrent Sync. Security notes First, since the focus of …
NTP Amplification Attacks, the latest DDoS weapon (and how to protect yourself from it)
During the last few months, we’ve seen an increased amount of NTP amplification attacks. It’s an attack technique, similar to the previous wave of DNS amplification attacks, mostly used by script kiddies (but also by black hats) to take sites/servers offline. The technique behind of the attack is pretty simple; using public NTP servers, the attacker sends a request and …