Why Another Open Source IAM Product?
A question that has been lingering. It’s fair game, but before I get around to actually answering, let’s remember how we got here. Late...
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ABAC – Where are the Functional Specs?
As a security architect I have long-awaited the means to express authorization policies using dynamic constraints – in a standard way....
Read articleUsing Roles for Access Control is NOT RBAC
Using roles for access control is not Role-Based Access Control!
Read articleNew Symas Download Site
A NEW DOWNLOAD SITE IS AVAILABLE FOR OUR PRODUCTS: HTTPS://SYMAS.COM/DOWNLOADS WHAT’S NEW? BETTER ORGANIZATION AND NAVIGATION We have...
Read articleCarrier-Grade Stability and Performance
Early last year our client Acision ran a torture test on Symas OpenLDAP as part of acceptance testing for their telco offerings. These...
Read articleHow OpenLDAP Brought an Efficient New RBAC Security Solution to the Next Level
Shawn McKinney started developing RBAC systems 15 years ago, as a Security Architect for a major financial services company with...
Read articleSymas Products Not Susceptible to Recent OpenSSL "Heartbleed"Vulnerability
Within the past few days the internet has been flooded with news and discussion of a recent OpenSSL vulnerability with far reaching...
Read articleThoughts on Translucency
Our EMC Partner’s Senior Architect has been out preaching the magic of translucency. When I mention that to folks, I get kind of a...
Read articleThis Is Not Your Father's Directory Server
OpenLDAP, a directory server which has the distinction of being the fastest LDAP directory server on the planet
Read articleGetting Down and Dirty with LMDB
Q&A WITH SYMAS CORPORATION’S HOWARD CHU ABOUT SYMAS’S LIGHTNING MEMORY-MAPPED DATABASE INTRODUCTION Howard Chu, the Chief Architect for...
Read articleRBAC and ABAC
ABAC appears to bring a more complex, computationally intensive style of policy expression and evaluation into play
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