by Shawn McKinney | Dec 7, 2018 | Application Security
We don’t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. RBAC has many good aspects that we’d like to preserve. It’s standards-based, meaning various implementations should interoperate. It works, and is already in place, pretty much everywhere. But we’d like to be able to sprinkle in a bit of context, allowing us to fix the role explosion problem, without breaking its interoperability, or bringing in another implementation, with yet another protocol.
by Shawn McKinney | Dec 1, 2018 | Fortress, OpenLDAP
This post describes how Apache Fortress and OpenLDAP can be placed into a highly-available configuration. Apache Fortress provides Identity and Access Management APIs over HTTP using either JSON or REST formats. OpenLDAP is where the data is stored and maintained.
by Shawn McKinney | Nov 29, 2018 | Apache Fortress, Articles
This is step 3 of a 3 step process to create a High-Available configuration between Apache Fortress and Symas OpenLDAP.
by Shawn McKinney | Sep 26, 2017 | Application Security, Software Design
We all know there’s not a foolproof way to secure computing systems. But there are steps that can mitigate the risk of exposure once the inevitable breach occurs.
by Shawn McKinney | May 19, 2017 | Identity Management
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. How to Govern and Maintain Compliance Using Open Source Identity Management Components - Katarina Valalikova, Evolveum & Shawn McKinney, Symas Corporation As platform usages...
