Introduction In this blog, we’ll go over the different methods we can use to encrypt and decrypt data in a PostgreSQL database. Having some experience with Linux and PostgreSQL is necessary, while experience with encryption is not but is nice to have. This blog was written using PostgreSQL 16 running on Ubuntu 23.04. First I’ll…
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1. What Is Security? The word “Security” is a very broad concept and could refer to completely different procedures and methodology to achieve. Knowing what security means to your application is very important, so you could execute proper security practices and procedures to ensure the safety of your company’s assets. Data compromises could often lead…
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1. Introduction Data and user security have always been important considerations for small to large enterprises during the deployment of their database or application servers. PostgreSQL today has rich support for many network level and user level security features. These include TLS to secure database connections, internal user authentication, integration with external user authentication services…
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1. Introduction This is part 3 of the blog “Understanding Security Features in PostgreSQL”, in which I will be discussing how to apply TLS in both PostgreSQL server and client using the principles we have learned in part 2 of the blog. In the end, I will also briefly talk about Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)…
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1. Introduction This is part 2 of the blog “Understanding Security Features in PostgreSQL”, in which I will be discussing TLS in greater details. I will begin by going over some of the most important security concepts around TLS before jumping into enabling TLS on PostgreSQL server. I believe it is crucial to have sufficient…
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1. Introduction PostgreSQL is packed with several security features for a database administrator to utilize according to his or her organizational security needs. The word Security is a very broad concept and could refer to completely different procedures and methodology to achieve in different PostgreSQL components. This blog is divided into part 1, 2 and…
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