Hardening Qlik License Service: Setting Preferred Cipher Suites
TLS 1.2 protocol support has been integrated since June 2017. The Qlik License Service supports the following cipher suites:
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA ...
Posted on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:05:13 +0000 by ggkfc
Securing Microservice Discovery with Eureka: End-to-End Protection Patterns
Why Discovery Security Matters
When every microservice is reachable over the network, the service registry becomes the first line of defense. An unprotected Eureka instance can be used to:
Inject rogue endpoints into the load-balancer
Exfiltrate configuration metadata
Trigger cascading failures via forged health checks
This guide shows how to ...
Posted on Sun, 17 May 2026 14:56:21 +0000 by markmusicman
Implementing Mutual TLS Authentication with Nginx
Generating Certificates
To establish mutual authentication, you must first create a Certificate Authority (CA) and sign your server and client certificates. Use the following commands to generate the necessary keys and certifictaes:
# Generate the root CA private key
openssl genrsa -out root_authority.key 4096
# Generate the root CA self-signed ...
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026 10:53:29 +0000 by jrodd32