Chris Becker

Site Reliability Engineering Manager,

Expertise

Security, Databases, Policy, Integrations, Privileged Access Management, AWS

Latest blog posts from Chris

Managing Access to Ephemeral Infrastructure At Scale

Managing a static fleet of strongDM servers is dead simple. You create the server in the strongDM console, place the public key file on the box, and it’s done! This scales really well for small deployments, but as your fleet grows, the burden of manual tasks grows with it.

Change/Reset Default MySQL Root Password (Linux & Windows)

On an unmodified MySQL install, the root user account does not have a password. This is extremely insecure! As a systems administrator, we know that the easiest way to compromise a system is using the default unchanged password with admin privileges.

How to Create a User and Add a Role in MongoDB (Safest Way)

Abstract-away usernames and passwords and allow the systems administrator to keep the master passwords safe under lock & key.

How to Replace Your VPN with strongDM

So you’re ready to move away VPN or from complicated user management like LDAP, ready to stop worrying about private keys existing on developer laptops, and ready to up your compliance game with audit trails on all of your SSH and database sessions.

AWS Console Alternative, Secure AWS Management

Gone are the days of sharing AWS root account credentials in a shared 1Password vault or worse, via email. With this in mind, one of the first steps to securing our AWS account is setting up AWS IAM.

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