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Each time you add a new user service to your computing environment, the password burden on your organization grows exponentially. Kerberos greatly simplifies password management, but understanding it is anything but simple. Most people find themselves dragged into depths of … Continue reading
Posted in Password Management, Single Sign-On (SSO)
Tagged authentication, kerberos, password management, single sign on, sso
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I recently wrote a tip for IT Jungle that admonishes programmers to stop assuming that the “job user name” is the same user profile under which a job is currently executing. The article provided examples of how to retrieve the … Continue reading
Recently I wrote an article called Practical Uses for Enterprise Identity Mapping that appeared in IBM Systems Magazine’s AIX Extra online newsletter. It described ways to use EIM to solve problems unrelated to Single Sign-On (SSO). More recently, I discovered … Continue reading
Not many people realize that IBM i lets you define your own ad-hoc or application-defined special authorities. That’s not real surprising considering that neither the name of the mechanism nor the documentation says anything about special authorities.
Posted in IBM i Security, Info Security Mgmt, Information Security
Tagged authority, IBM i Security, security policy
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I’m just polishing up my presentations and getting ready to head off to sunny Anaheim for the 2015 COMMON Meeting. I’ll be onsite beginning Saturday evening.
I’ve got good news for you. The best technology for implementing SSO — Kerberos — is something that your organization probably already owns. If you want to understand why Kerberos is a great technology on which to build your Single … Continue reading
Posted in Single Sign-On (SSO)
Tagged kerberos, password management, single sign on, sso, SSO Stat!
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It may surprise a few people, but I’m just not worried about my credit card being stolen. In fact, I refuse to worry about it. That may sound like heresy for someone who is supposed to know a little bit … Continue reading
Hey everyone! Starting this month I’m going to be writing a monthly article for IBM Systems Magazine’s EXTRA online newsletter. Check out the March installment — Howdy, Partner! The Role of Application Developers in IT Security — for a look … Continue reading
I recently read an article called The Enemies of Data Security: Convenience and Collaboration, posted by Carl S. Young on the Harvard Business Review website. My experience with academic papers on information security is that most of them don’t deal … Continue reading
You are a long-time IBM i (AS/400, iSeries, IBM System i, etc.) programmer and you understand the details of how the system checks authority, don’t you? I bet you don’t! It’s the authority of the JOB that really matters. Why … Continue reading
