Introduction to Kerberos for Managers
What is Kerberos? It is an authentication mechanism...
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Introduction to Digital Signatures for Managers
What are digital signatures and what do they tell us, what information do they hold? All this and more are explained in this article.
Introduction to SSL for Managers
In this article I am going to outline what SSL is, its building blocks and how it works.
Three Brass Monkeys
In this article I’m going to talk about why we shouldn’t take security for granted, what practices should be part of our process and how the industry may move to enforce this.
Introduction to Public Key Encryption for Managers
In this first article of a series I’m going to start by explaining a little bit about Public Key encryption which is one of the fundamental building blocks of SSL.
SAML Single Sign on With JBoss Wildfly and Picketlink
Following on from my previous article about configuring SAML SSO with Tomcat and Picketlink this time I will show you how to do the same thing with JBoss Wildfly.
Kerberos User Impersonation on Tomcat with Apache
If you are using Kerberos for single sign-on SSO and want to be able to make http requests impersonating the end user to third party systems you can do this using the HttpClient that is part of the Apache HttpComponents project.
SAML Single Sign-On with Tomcat and PicketLink
In this article I’ll give you an introduction to SAML Web Browser Single Sign On Profile using POST and how to configure it in Tomcat.