Category Archives: Authentication

Believe it or not, some commonly-accepted password best practices are probably counter-productive for security in the real world.

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A common web server setup with an uncommon SSO hiccup Last week an SSO stat! customer called me needing some help. They had the Apache Web server on IBM i configured to use Kerberos authentication, and it had been working … Continue reading

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I recently had the opportunity to help a customer implement a web services interface that relied on SAML for authentication. Doing so provided a couple of insights that I found interesting.

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