Pro MySQL NDB Cluster

© Jesper Wisborg Krogh and Mikiya Okuno 2017

Jesper Wisborg Krogh and Mikiya OkunoPro MySQL NDB Clusterhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2982-8_12

12. Security Considerations

Jesper Wisborg Krogh¹  and Mikiya Okuno²

(1)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

(2)

Tochigi, Japan

 

Back in the early days of the Internet, not a lot of thought was given to the security of the software installed around the world. Network connections were not encrypted, so the network traffic, including passwords, could be seen in plain text (remember telnet, anyone?). Even today, it is common for software or hardware devices to be delivered with standard default passwords or no password on the administration account. That level of security does not meet today’s standards. This ...