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The average workday of IT admins are chock full of tasks and to-dos. With IT infrastructure now being more critical to businesses than ever, IT admins are in demand. So, the value of everything they do must be analyzed and understood, especially from a… Continue reading Benefits of User Management
One of the most critical aspects of IT is user management. After all, connecting users to the IT resources they need is not only a crucial operational function, but is also a matter of security. But, what do you need to take into consideration for user… Continue reading Introduction to User Management
Suppose you have a user account management subsystem with a web UI. You can change user account passwords in regular masked input password fields in HTML POST forms. I’m wondering, is it fine if such forms have password confi… Continue reading Should a system require a password confirmation for accounts managed by an administrator?
At my workplace, users on most workstations (Win7 and 10 blend) do not have local admin rights. As a technical team we often need this for software installs, and so the director gets called around to enter credentials. Not on… Continue reading My boss installs software using domain admin. Should I show that this is bad?
As IT organizations shift to the cloud, many are wondering what the next generation incarnation of IT management solutions like Active Directory® (MAD or AD) and SCCM will end up being. Will they be on-prem solutions like we’re accustomed to… Continue reading Blog – JumpCloud 2019-01-07 10:00:15
IT management tools are moving over to the cloud. While this transition has been happening for a number of years, the identity and access management (IAM) space has largely stayed on-prem. But, now a new wave of serverless IAM solutions are emerging. A… Continue reading Serverless User Management
Given scenario:
I have an application (NodeJS) running on Heroku, the database is RDS on Amazon and I use Auth0 for authentication. I don’t have access to passwords of the users, some users use social media logins.
The problem:
The applic… Continue reading Encrypt User specific Information without a password
Is there an open source domain controller (DC) worth considering? There are a number of open source DCs available and many of them could end up representing interesting solutions for your organization. Often, solutions pertaining to the directory servi… Continue reading Open Source Domain Controller
IT admins are looking to automate user management; it is no secret. User management has largely been a manual effort in a lot of ways for many years. When you add in the numerous types of IT resources that have emerged over the past 10 to 15 year… Continue reading Automate User Management
From what I understand about using OpenID Connect (over OAuth2), is that we end up with some JSON containing information about the user. That information is transported as a JSON Web Token.
➥ What are the pieces of informa… Continue reading What are the pieces of information delivered in a user profile at the end of a OpenID Connect flow?