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SQL Injection? Reduce your attack surface!

There are a few good ways to reduce the attack surface of SQL injection attacks, both in MySQL and more broadly in database security. First, input validation. Ensuring that an input matches an expected type or range of values, which can be done in code or with built-in filters, can help prevent the execution ofContinue reading “SQL Injection? Reduce your attack surface!”

Database Permissions – A quick overview

Privileges in databases, like other permissions, should be managed according to least privilege principles, including database administrators and security administrators. On that first point, it’s important to keep security and database administration roles separate whenever possible. The security admin should be the only user or group of users able to perform security-related tasks. To avoidContinue reading “Database Permissions – A quick overview”

What the heck is an RTOS?

Generally speaking, a general-purpose OS like Windows is focused on the management of the hardware resources of a computer, and managing the application which run on the computer, while providing a smooth and accessible user interface for computer users to interact with. While an RTOS has to manage CPU hardware and such as well, theContinue reading “What the heck is an RTOS?”