Cloud Adoption 2019: A for Adoption

Remember remember the Fifth of November, and your company’s need for a data defender.
The Bitglass Cloud Adoption report, which has been conducted multiple times in the past few years, illustrates the magnitude to which organizations are ad… Continue reading Cloud Adoption 2019: A for Adoption

How does the browser know windows logged in user id or Kerberos TGT?

My organization uses SSO for its applications i.e. Once a user logs into his Windows 10 workstation, he accesses his web application without login. I was informed that the web applications uses NetIQ Identity Manager(IdP) and Kerberos in t… Continue reading How does the browser know windows logged in user id or Kerberos TGT?

How passwords paved the way for new technology

On July 15 we lost a major contributor to modern-day IT security – Dr. Fernando Corbato, the inventor of the password. Back in the early 1950s, computers could only do single processing jobs. Due to this limitation, it meant that multiple users c… Continue reading How passwords paved the way for new technology

Secure REST API that only works for users authenticated by App with SSO (OAuth?)

I somehow need to accomplish the following:

User accesses a application written in JavaScript.
Application uses SSO to identify the user who is logged into Windows.
Application obtains the access role for that user for the … Continue reading Secure REST API that only works for users authenticated by App with SSO (OAuth?)