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 Matthew Hardin | Oct 3, 2018 | Application Security, OpenLDAP
50% of networks and websites that aren’t using 2FA are open to shared-password attacks. Is yours one of them? How many of the users in your network use the same password on external sites with questionable security? Ondrej Kuznik offers insight on how OpenLDAP users can implement 2FA today. Click to learn how.
by Matthew Hardin | Aug 1, 2018 | Application Security, Fortress, OpenLDAP
The Symas Blog Keeping our clients up to date on bug fixes, helpful tips, and more. The Apache Directory Project announces version 2.0.1 of Apache Fortress Apache Fortress is a computer security access management facility written in Java. Other platforms use the...
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 | Aug 7, 2016 | Application Security
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...
by Shawn McKinney | Aug 5, 2016 | Application Security
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...
