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Just One POST: Enabling Declarative DNS with F5 and the NGINX JavaScript Module In the 1990 movie The Hunt for Red October, Sean Connery plays Marko Ramius, captain of the Soviet Union’s newest nuclear submarine, who intends to defect to the US and bring the sub with him. CIA analyst Jack Ryan, played by a young Alec Baldwin, intuits Ramius’s motive and has to convince the US Navy of his theory to prevent a violent confrontation between the superpowers. To prove his point, Ryan first needs to talk to Ramius, and suspense ratchets up as Ryan spends an inordinate amount of time trying to locate him. On the face of it, Ryan’s search is like that of a browser client trying to find a website on the Internet – except that websites register their locations in the Domain Name System (DNS), making [ more… ]

Redefining Client-Side Security with the Tala Security Certified Module for NGINX Plus Up to 70% of the code rendering on websites today comes not from servers at the site, but via JavaScript integrations that operate outside the site’s security controls. This architecture enriches customer experience and engagement but also introduces critical vulnerabilities that enable client‑side attacks like Magecart. To understand how we can fix this problem, let’s start with a look at how we got here. Fifteen years ago, when a user visited a website, all processing occurred on the server. The response sent to the client was mostly HTML code to be rendered, meaning the browser or client app was primarily a rendering engine. Fast‑forward a few years and two key developments have transformed the architecture of modern web applications. First, companies like Google developed cloud‑based applications like GSuite to [ more… ]