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Learn how to strengthen your infrastructure with Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and advanced security features. Perform SSL/TLS offloading and protect against application layer threats to ensure your critical systems are always compliant and protected.

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Finally, a simple way to convert MaxMind GeoIP Database files to the legacy DAT format!

Darktrace: When looks aren't everything

An engineer at a business using Darktrace, confessed that many IT staff ignored the pricey security software because it sent so many false alerts...

WAF Security

Let's Encrypt — how did we survive without it?

Let’s Encrypt is awesome! Not only is it more secure than your existing certificate authority. It's also reliable, scalable, fully automated — and free!..

Security

FC Barcelona choose Loadbalancer.org in AWS for flexibility and security

With our 9 years expertise in making applications within AWS indestructible, Loadbalancer.org was able to provide FC Barcelona with an intelligent application delivery controller built on 15 years' worth of battle‑hardened software...

AWS / Azure / GCP Security
content delivery network based on location of the client

How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client...

AWS / Azure / GCP Security High Availability

Load Balancing Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure

In the Azure Management Portal, select the Virtual Machines option, click on the newly deployed Load Balancer VM, click on Network interfaces and then select the network interface attached to the load balancer, then click IP configurations and ensure that IP forwarding is Enabled...

Application Management WAF AWS / Azure / GCP

Security through obscurity - double login protection made easy...

Security through obscurity is not a great idea when it is your ONLY protection technique. For example moving your SSH port from 22 -> 23 won't fool any hackers for long! However, I've always liked putting a 'double login' in front of important web sites to frustrate simple automated hacking tools...

Security How-tos WAF
protecting your application with client certificate authentication

Client Certificate Authentication with HAProxy: How to configure

Using client certificates for security is a pretty cool idea! You can protect an entire application or even just a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to only those that provide a valid client certificate...

How-tos Security HAProxy