No case studies on ABAC?
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. Don’t get me wrong, everyone needs at least RBAC, but it has limitations and doesn’t work well with instance data in the authorization expression. This perceived need leads...
We Can Stop Looking For That Panacea Now
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. It seems every year there’s a new protocol for handling security. I was first sucked down into this black hole in the ’90’s. Few standards back then. Now, so many...
Ahem, it’s called Role-Based Access Control
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. Of late, on a quest, to educate the info sec community, the definition of RBAC. Not the first time. A couple years back, this role-infused rant: Using Roles for Access Control is Not...
Apache Fortress Role Engineering Tutorial
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. The goals of this tutorial are to Gain understanding of the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) standard Learn the repeatable steps of the Role Engineering Process Learn about using the...
Apache Fortress End-to-End Security Tutorial
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. The tutorial provides a how-to guide for applying end-to-end security enforcement across a sample Java Web environment using Java EE, Spring and Apache Fortress security. Requirements...
Apache Fortress SAML Demo
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. Overview The aim of this tutorial is to connect Apache Fortress with Spring Security SAML and a common Identity Provider – SSO Circle.com. It’s not intended to highlight all of the...
Introducing a Security Access Control Engine Inside OpenLDAP
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on big fixes, helpful tips, and more. Security Access Control Engine - How & Why The OpenLDAP Accelerator is a Policy Decision Point that resides inside the slapd process. This presentation - “Introducing a...Understanding LMDB Database File Sizes and Memory Utilization
The Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) is designed around the virtual memory facilities found in modern operating systems, Multi-version Concurrency Control (MVCC), and Single-Level Store (SLS) concepts. This design is quite different than those of more traditional databases and, in operation, it can mimic behaviors that system administrators have been trained to recognize as signs of trouble. With LMDB, though, the behaviors are normal, but nonetheless this leads to the following questions:
ApacheDS & Fortress QUICKSTART
As engineers, we are often encouraged to use the right tool for the job. Maybe that is because we tend to grow too attached to the familiar. When we’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail.