Overview
Zebanza is a dedicated partner for open-source databases, offering consultancy, project expertise, managed services with 24/7 support, and rapid-response SOS database support. The company combines technical expertise with community-focused solutions for database migration, health checks, version upgrades, and ongoing management.
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- 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘚𝘘𝘓 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳." This sentence, dropped casually in a kickoff, is responsible for a lot of incidents. Principle of Least Privilege isn't a database concept. It's a security concept that applies to your database especially well, because PostgreSQL gives you the tools to actually implement it. You can set a CONNECTION LIMIT, or a VALID UNTIL timestamp that expires the role automatically. You can grant SELECT on some columns and
- Encryption gets talked about like it's one thing. It's two. Your data is either moving or it's sitting still. Both states need protection, and they need different tools for it. In transit means the connection between your application and your PostgreSQL server. SSL/TLS is the fix, and PostgreSQL supports it natively. You can even force it in pg_hba.conf with 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴𝘴𝘭 instead of 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵, so unencrypted connections simply aren't accepted. At rest means the data sitting on disk. PostgreSQL community edition doesn't ship with
- PostgreSQL has a gatekeeper most people never open. It's called pg_hba.conf. Every single connection to your database passes through this file first, line by line, to decide who gets in and on what conditions. A lot of production setups still have rules that were fine on day one and never got revisited. An IP range that's too broad. A trust method that was meant to be temporary. A user that should have been locked down three projects ago. Good host-based access rules answer four questions for every connection: → What type of
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