Re: protecting security-sensitive operations on multi-tenant servers

2022-03-27 Thread Rick Hillegas
Thanks, Alan. I don't have a lot of visibility into how Derby's security mechanisms are deployed. We only hear from users when they have problems--and we don't field many security-related issues. I will put your advice into our release notes: move your application into a container so that you

Re: protecting security-sensitive operations on multi-tenant servers

2022-03-27 Thread Alan Bateman
On 27/03/2022 14:45, Rick Hillegas wrote: From the silence, I assume that there isn't any advice I can give Derby users. At this time the Security Manager is the only mechanism for protecting an application against these threats. Users should ignore the deprecation diagnostics and set

Re: protecting security-sensitive operations on multi-tenant servers

2022-03-27 Thread Rick Hillegas
From the silence, I assume that there isn't any advice I can give Derby users. At this time the Security Manager is the only mechanism for protecting an application against these threats. Users should ignore the deprecation diagnostics and set -Djava.security.manager=allow. On 3/24/22 2:27

protecting security-sensitive operations on multi-tenant servers

2022-03-24 Thread Rick Hillegas
The Apache Derby community is getting ready to vet a new release which can be used on Java 17. Before buttoning down the release, I wanted to check in on current best practices for defending enterprise applications against the threats which the Java Security Manager parries. There may be some