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Redis Essentials

You're reading from   Redis Essentials Harness the power of Redis to integrate and manage your projects efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784392451
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Networking security


Redis is meant to run in a trusted network, but that is not always the case. Currently, many Redis servers are deployed on public clouds, meaning security is a concern.

There are many ways to make Redis secure, such as the following:

  • Use firewall rules to block access from unknown clients

  • Run Redis on the loopback interface, rather than a publicly accessible network interface

  • Run Redis in a virtual private cloud instead of the public Internet

  • Encrypt client-to-server communication

Protecting Redis with firewall rules

Firewall rules are a safe alternative to protect a Redis server, but it is required to have a list of all the trusted Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks of the possible clients. In a Unix-like server, the iptables program can be used to set up firewall rules.

The iptables program is a standard firewall created in 1998 by Rusty Russell. It is included in most Linux distributions by default. Most of the explanation of iptables is not applicable for Windows...

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