In any organisation of a large size managing access to servers and cloud resources is difficult. There is often a tradeoff between convenience and security. Changing these settings is also a bit scary in production as you can be locked out of your servers… One solution mentioned by facebook engineering and smallstep is to make […]
Gomorra, an Italian TV series and a must watch in the organised crime genre. A list of iconic Gomorra Characters: Ciro Di Marzio – Legend Gennaro Savastano – Legacy cemented in the 3rd and 4th seasons Don Pietro Savastano Malamore (Bad Love) – Enforcer for Don Pietro Salvatore Conte Blue Bloods (Enzo "Sangueblù" Villa) O’Trak […]
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Fortimail REST API Examples
The fortimail rest api documentation is not great. It can be alot better. Although it can also be a lot worse. I will go through a few examples of common things that can be done with the api over HTTP (It isn’t rest although they think it is) – no hypermedia and making use of […]
This is a weird one, an error I had never got until I used an external MySQL (Maria) DB Instance with Django. The steps to recreate this error would be: As an Admin try and add another user from the admin section You will get an error like this: OperationalError /admin/auth/user/add/ error(1305, 'SAVEPOINT s139787825936192_x1 does […]
I’ve been wanting to secure my api – so unidentified and unathorized parties cannot view, update, create or delete data. This api is internal to the company and will only be used by other services – in other words no end users. Hence the delegation of authorization need not happen and the services will be […]