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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
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
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In a previous post on this topic, I discussed how to calculate the cost of a security-related project and how to compare different solutions for a given security-related project or issue. I asserted that there are three different aspects that … Continue reading
Information security is first and foremost a business issue. As IT professionals, we need to analyze the merits of any security project based on how much the investment will benefit the organization.
So you’re interested in implementing single sign-on. You know that everybody, including management, will love it. But that doesn’t mean that management will give you a blank check to implement it. Like any security project, they expect you to make … Continue reading
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I didn’t come up with the idea for a managed single sign-on (SSO) service. A customer did. When Botz & Associates started security consulting, only infrequently would companies request help implementing SSO. I always wondered why more companies weren’t using … Continue reading
On October 7th IBM Systems Magazine hosted my webcast, How to Achieve SSO in a Day: Eliminate passwords and be an IT hero. I was very happy to see the large number of people who registered, attended, and stayed online until … Continue reading
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Patrick Townsend and I had a chance to catch up at COMMON earlier this year. I was psyched to learn that Townsend Security is now offering Two Factor Authentication (2FA) for the IBM i. When we started talking about … Continue reading
The new IBM i 7.2 release brings several security-related enhancements. Two of them are the ability to use SSO from an IBM i green screen to a remote Telnet or FTP server that also supports Kerberos.
Lately I’ve been fielding a lot of questions on single sign-on (SSO) and high availability. This post provides basic advice and considerations for using these two strategies together.
