Posts tagged with Security:
Thursday, 24 July 2025
The end of password pain: building frictionless authentication at the Guardian
Mahesh MakaniHow the Guardian's Identity and Trust team eliminated password friction and improved security by implementing one-time passcodes, leading to 82% of readers now using passwordless authentication
Thursday, 4 April 2024
When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian
Philip McMahonThe latest version of the whistleblowing platform SecureDrop runs on the Qubes operating system. At the Guardian we used the Salt management engine to set up a Qubes environment where journalists could safely interrogate sensitive documents.
Friday, 20 December 2019
Securing and centrally monitoring accounts in Amazon Web Services
Kate WhalenAn introduction to AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS StackSets and how they can support cloud security checks.
Friday, 18 May 2018
Why the Guardian is using encrypted EC2 root volumes on AWS
Simon HildrewIn an ongoing effort to adhere to security best practices the Guardian is starting to use encrypted root volumes by default on servers in AWS.
Friday, 16 December 2016
Real-world software security lessons
Adam FisherCan common-sense and our real-world intuition show us how to write secure software?
