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The Increase of Device Based Cyber Attacks

Jan 21, 2025

Learn how to protect your enterprise from rising device-based cyber threats with multi-layered defense strategies and advanced security technologies.

Revolutionizing Authentication with Verifiable Credentials: Use Cases Across Industries

Nov 26, 2024

Discover how verifiable credentials are revolutionizing authentication across healthcare, finance, and workforce management, ensuring security, privacy, and efficiency in digital identity verification.

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Securing Identities: The Core of Identity and Governance Administration

May 14, 2024

Exploring the integral relationship between identity and governance administration in securing organizational assets.

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Maximizing Security: The Power of IGA in Zero Trust

Apr 29, 2024

Learn how Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) can enhance security in Zero Trust architectures.

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Securing the Future: Exploring the Power of Identity-Based Security

Jan 25, 2024

Enhance your organization's cybersecurity with identity-based security. Learn how it works, its benefits, and why it's crucial for data protection..

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Exploring User Authentication and Authorization

Oct 24, 2023

IAM serves as a vital part of cybersecurity, assisting enterprises in maintaining the confidentiality and protection of sensitive information.

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Streamlining Security: The Benefits of Single Sign-On

Sep 20, 2023

SSO enhances user experience, improves security, boosts productivity, and simplifies administration. Elevate your organization's performance today.

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Biometrics: Unlocking the IAM Future

Jun 20, 2023

Discover the future of Identity and Access Management (IAM) as biometric technologies revolutionize authentication. Facial recognition, iris scanning, fingerprint analysis, and more.

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OpenDJ Attribute Uniqueness (and the Effects on OpenAM)

Sep 29, 2014

In real life we tend to value those traits that make us unique from others; but in an identity management deployment uniqueness is essential to the authentication process and should not be taken for granted. Case in point, attributes in OpenDJ may share values that you may or may not want (or need) to be unique. For Read more

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Understanding OpenAM and OpenDJ Account Lockout Behaviors

Apr 22, 2014

The OpenAM Authentication Service can be configured to lock a user’s account after a defined number of log in attempts has failed. Account Lockout is disabled by default, but when configured properly, this feature can be useful in fending off brute force attacks against OpenAM login screens. If your OpenAM environment includes an LDAP server Read more

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It’s OK to Get Stressed Out with OpenAM

Mar 7, 2014

In fact, it’s HIGHLY recommended…. Performance testing and stress testing are closely related and are essential tasks in any OpenAM deployment. When conducting performance testing, you are trying to determine how well your system performs when subjected to a particular load. A primary goal of performance testing is to determine whether the system that you Read more

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How to Configure OpenAM Signing Keys

Feb 9, 2014

The exchange of SAML assertions between an Identity Provider (IdP) and a Service Provider (SP) uses Public-key Cryptography to validate the identity of the IdP and the integrity of the assertion. Securing SAML Assertions SAML assertions passed over the public Internet will include a digital signature signed by an Identity Provider’s private key. Additionally, Read more

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Single Sign-On Explained

Dec 17, 2011

Single-Sign-On reduces the number of times you must enter a username and password. Explore Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) & Web Single Sign-On (WSSO).

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Opinions About the Federal Government’s Identity Initiative

Sep 11, 2009

Interesting read. This is essentially a WebSSO initiative with authentication based on CAC type ID cards or OpenID. The CAC type of implementation (ID Cards) are not practical as they require everyone to have a card reader on their PC in order to do business with the government. I don’t see this happening anytime too Read more

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Identity Management Lessons from Sarah Palin

Sep 19, 2008

By now, many of you have already heard about the hacking of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account earlier this week (on or about Tuesday 9/16/2008). If not, here is a brief synopsys of the story. Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo e-mail account was compromised and the contents of her account (including her address book, Read more

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