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Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Applications

Sweta Vajjhala on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Security around public cloud offerings has always been a major point of concern (and controversy) for users. How do cloud providers protect customer data? How is log data protected? How is the surrounding infrastructure secured? We previous talked about how iON stays up and running even through EC2 outages. Today, we will talk about iON [...]

Encrypting passwords in Mule

Eugene Berman on Friday, October 21, 2011

Jasypt is an open source Java library which provides basic encryption capabilities using a high-level API. This library can be used with Mule to avoid clear text passwords for connectors and endpoints.First, download the latest Jasypt distribution, unpack it and copy icu4j and jasypt jars to MULE_HOME/lib/user directory.

Authentication & Resource Sharing over the Web: OAuth protocol

Federico Recio on Tuesday, September 20, 2011

If you reached this blog and you are not a Mule user (yet) keep reading, I will not cover anything Mule specific. If you are new to OAuth or want to get an introduction to its concepts this post is the right one! Authentication is vital in any kind of system but it is even [...]

Mule iON Architecture Series: The Technology

Erik Seilnacht on Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Building a highly available and fault tolerant cloud platform comes with its share of challenges. What happens when components fail? What happens when the cloud itself experiences downtime?  How is it possible to ensure customer apps are always available and their log data is never lost? These are some of the very questions we ask [...]

Securing REST Web Services against LDAP

jaskirat.bhatia on Thursday, March 24, 2011

Many Mule users create RESTful services but they are not always clear on the way to authenticate and apply authorization to a RESTful Web Service. I have seen questions about this topic so I decided to write a tutorial that covers a common use case. We’re going to use Jersey, Spring Security and LDAP and of course Mule to [...]

Run Mule, Run! Mule 3.1 is out

Ross Mason on Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The Mule team is very pleased to announce the general availability of Mule ESB 3.1. This release packs a lot of new shiny awesomeness. Cloud Connect We received loads of great feedback on Mule Cloud Connect and the team has been working hard on new improvements. Cloud Connectors now have specific XML schemas making it [...]

Apache Shiro support for Mule

Dan Diephouse on Monday, January 10, 2011

Have you seen Apache Shiro yet? Security may not be the sexiest thing on the block, but this little framework is quite nice. It provides a very robust, yet easy to use security mechanism out of the box. Why yet another security framework? There are two reasons that it appealed to me: It is the [...]

Tcat Server 6 R2 P1 Released, Including the Newest Apache Tomcat

jasonb on Tuesday, March 23, 2010

We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of our newest release of Tcat Server 6. This new release includes many fixes, in addition to bundling the Apache Software Foundation’s official release binaries of the newest Tomcat release, version 6.0.26. Here is a summary of the changes and fixes that are included in the new version [...]

Is your Tomcat Secure?

Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Apache Tomcat is the perfect application server for deploying your web applications in production. In fact, it also happens to be the only Java application server that has hardening guidelines published by Center for Internet Security (CIS). CIS publishes hardening guidelines for widely used software to help enterprises protect their deployments. The very fact that [...]

WS-Security and SAML for Mule

Travis Carlson on Monday, December 14, 2009

Mule has had support for WS-Security via CXF for some time now, but Mule 2.2.4 Enterprise goes a bit further still with the inclusion of the Mule SAML Module and a new WS-Security example. In this article, I will step through the WS-Security example so that you can see the different possibilities available for incorporating WS-Security into your Mule application.