Adding Contextual Information to the RBAC Decision
Just back from Gartner’s IAM Summit in Vegas where I learned about industry trends surrounding Identity and Access Management, its...
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The Not-So-Bright Future of Directory Services in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
389-ds and Red Hat Directory Server are being touted as Red Hat’s LDAP server solutions on future versions of their OS, but the fine...
Read articleConfiguring Apache Fortress-OpenLDAP For High Availability
Apache Fortress and OpenLDAP configuration for HA
Read articleYour Facebook Account is Worth 2FA But Your Own Network Isn’t?
In July I saw this article on The Register about the lack of account security in the enterprise. From the article: “Few companies bother...
Read articleHow-To Guide: Two-Factor Authentication
AVAILABLE WITH SYMAS OPENLDAP GOLD 2.4.46.1 Passwords, everyone loves to hate them and still, in the era of digital certificates,...
Read articleWho put ABAC in my RBAC?
Readers know that Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) is a bit of an obsession with me. It stems from the want to have something like...
Read articleOpenLDAP for Linux Support from Symas Corporation
A few weeks ago, I posted about Red Hat and SuSE and their plans to withdraw support for OpenLDAP from their upcoming Linux releases. In...
Read articleLarge University Switches to Symas OpenLDAP, Sees Immediate Success
In 2001, a well known private university in Northern California with annual enrollments of over 16,000, was juggling its directory...
Read article3 Turn Productions applauds service from Symas
Symas Gives Startup Exemplary Support and Service In 2013 the president of Three Turn Productions, Judy Tyrer, reached out to Symas for...
Read articleThe Apache Directory Project announces the 8th release of Fortress
The Apache Directory Project Announced Version 2.0.1 of Apache Fortress Apache Fortress is a computer security access management facility...
Read articleTowards an Attribute-Based Role-Based Access Control System
[Link to the Apache Fortress RBAC-ABAC-SAMPLE project on Github] We’ve all heard the complaint, RBAC doesn’t work. It leads to Role...
Read articleHow I Built an Access Management System Using Apache Directory Fortress
Watching application teams struggle implementing access control systems brings me to a talk I gave at ApacheCon a couple of years ago....
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