Abstract: Embodiments for securely exchanging Certificate Authority (CA) certificates inline and bi-directionally to make it easier for client-server transmissions to use certificate-based authentication. The client certificate is transferred securely through encryption with a pre-shared key based on certain parameters, and the server certificate is transferred securely through encryption with a pre-shared key based on the parameters. The process reduces the burden from applications to maintain and save the CA certificate. It also reduces the burden from server to maintain and save the CA certificate of the client so that server can select it to be used during authentication. This helps enable large scale deployments where the server can maintain the CA certificate and send it to client.

Abstract: A software product that requires debugging receives a security token in response to a request to enable debug logging. The security token is validated. Upon a successful validation of the security token, debug logging is enabled and debug logs are encrypted while being dumped. A duration for which debug logging has been enabled is tracked. When the duration reaches a cutoff duration, the debug logging is disabled.

Abstract: A security service for detecting and/or deterring computing attacks. A security service maintains counters related to different attack types for applications or clients including distributed applications. Information regarding requests received by the application are processed by the security service. When any of the counters exceed an associated threshold, an action can be performed in response.