Anticipating the Future With LMDB
As we’ve noted before, LMDB was designed to be a data storage solution for both today and especially for tomorrow, not to keep warming...
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The Sad State of C Strings
Character strings are an essential component of any programming language, but C Strings were a bit unusual in not defining an explicit...
Read articleLDAP is dead. Long Live LDAP!
David Goodman’s keynote, LDAP 2020 Paradise Lost or Regained?, provides a retrospective for us to contemplate. In it, he describes LDAP’s...
Read articleJavaOne Survival Guide
With next week being my 12th time at JavaOne, here’s some wisdom for those who’ve never been. Use the schedule builder. Many sessions...
Read articlePerformance Tradeoffs in LMDB
Yes, LMDB is fast, blindingly fast. Can we make it faster still? Yes. As you should be aware, LMDB uses mmap() to map an entire database...
Read articleApache Fortress SAML Demo
The aim of this tutorial is to connect Apache Directory Fortress with Spring Security SAML and a common Identity Provider – SSO...
Read articleWhat are Password Policies?
DEFINED A set of rules surrounding the content, quality and lifecycle of a password. WHAT ARE THEY FOR? Helps to safeguard the integrity...
Read articleWhat Are Temporal Constraints?
DEFINED Ability to control when an entity activation occurs based on time and date criteria. Temporal constraints are typically applied...
Read articleWhat is Delegated Administration?
DEFINED The ability to control access on the security system itself. This control is exercised inside the policy administration...
Read articleThe Case for a Policy Decision Point inside the LDAP Server
WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU DO THAT? We all understand that runtime characteristics change as processes get moved around the network. Having...
Read articleEnabling Java EE and Fortress Security inside an Apache Wicket Web App
INTRODUCTION The aim of this tutorial is to demonstrate how a simple wicket web app can be converted to use java EE and fortress security....
Read articleThe Seven Steps of Role Engineering
Role engineering takes us from a human readable policy syntax to what is loaded into an rbac engine and used by an application or system
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