Alexander is a Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS security team.

Alexander worked with MySQL since 2000 as DBA and Application Developer. Alexander was working as MySQL principal consultant/architect for over 15 years, started with MySQL AB in 2006 (company behind MySQL database), Sun Microsystems, Oracle and then Percona. He helped many customers design large, scalable and highly available MySQL systems, optimize MySQL performance and improve MySQL security.

Presentations

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Atomic Honeypot: A MySQL Honeypot That Drops Shells

Meet an attacking MySQL honepot which can “Attack the attackers”. With this atomic honeypot we were able to discover 2 new attacks against MySQL servers. Using arbitrary file read vulnerability in MySQL we were able to download and analyze the attackers' code and then execute an “attack against attackers” using a chain of exploits.

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State of MySQL Security in 2022

In this talk we will look into the state of MySQL Security in 2022. We will cover the new security focused features available in MySQL (and MySQL Compatible variants) as well as share best practices to consider for secure MySQL deployment.

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Protecting Personal and Health Data in MySQL

Protecting PII data is one of the biggest challenges of security minded DBA. But when you add a requirement to allow customers to have a direct access to a database replica it will make a life of a DBA nightmare.In this talk I will share an experience of how to implement customer authentication, authorization and data isolation in MySQL.

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Deploying MySQL in Kubernetes

Deploying stateful applications on top of Kubernetes is very exciting topic nowadays. In this hands on talk, Alexander Rubin from Percona will talk about how to deploy databases (MySQL, Mongo) on Kubernetes. 

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