Saturday, June 30, 2018

Brain dumping multiple subjects for future reference

Good write up about cookie security. One of the clearest I've seen on thevarious cookie flags.: https://www.wst.space/cookies-samesite-secure-httponly/

Ideas for startup administration: 

  • OSX admin: Fleetsmith
  • Logging/infra analytics: OSquery/Kolide
  • Password storage and sharing: Lastpass
  • Email: Gmail (preferrable ot office365, since the lowest versions of o365 don't allow 2FA and fleetsmith/kolide prefer gmail integration for auth)
  • 2FA solution (because google-authenticator doesn't allow backups:
    • Initially (free): Authy
    • Later on, for all their integrations and yubikey/ease of use: DUO

Goals for security admins:

  • Involve users minimally in setup and configuration of security products.
  • Make sec infra as invisible as possible.
  • Don't require 100 different passwords. Try to limit it to 3ish. 
  • Log from the get-go: https://medium.com/starting-up-security/starting-up-security-87839ab21bae
In general, this writeup is way better than I could have done it: https://medium.com/starting-up-security/starting-up-security-87839ab21bae

Everything Ryan writes here is pretty great: https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/advice/