Future of IAM
Identity Security
This focuses on securing individual identities throughout the cycle of accessing critical assets.
Nowadays Identity Security is a very crucial thing to consider as the trend is more towards cloud-based solutions, not on-premise ones. With the multi-cloud solutions and the worldwide pandemic situation, the users (employees, customers…
Controlling our own identity by ourselves
What is Self Sovereign Identity?
In the physical world, we use different types of techniques to prove our identity on different occasions. For example, we use a driving license, national identity card, or passport to prove our identity to certain parties in different scenarios. In the digital world, we…
What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
First of all, what is ‘Authentication’? Simply ‘Authentication’ is the process of distinctly identifying a certain entity. As the name implies the Multi-Factor Authentication is to use multiple factors to identify a certain entity.
Those factors can be categorized as ;
- Knowledge factor
- Ownership factor
- Inherence factor
Knowledge Factor
The…
Future of IAM
Conventional identity management deals with two types of accounts. They are ,
- User accounts
- Privileged Accounts
User Accounts
User accounts have a limited set of privileges to access different resources. Some examples are online shopping accounts, social media accounts and many more. …
What is User On-boarding in IAM
User on-boarding is a very broad topic, first of all let’s check what’s the wikipedia definition for user on-boarding
User on-boarding is the process of improving a person’s success with a product or service. …
Future of SCIM2
What is Charon
Charon is a greek mythology that wikipedia says,
Charon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead
When it comes with the context WSO2 and SCIM2, Charon…
Summer Release: WSO2 Identity Server is the latest success story of WSO2 Identity and Access Management team. After a marathon effort we are glad to release v5.8.0 with few new features, major improvements and some bug fixes
What is new?
New Features
So far WSO2 Identity Server supported OIDC Session…
This is the first blog of Provisioning Blog series with WSO2 Identity Server.
User Provisioning
What is user provisioning?
User Provisioning is an important aspect of the Identity Federation. …
What is a memory leak in java
Usually when objects are no longer used by an application those object should be garbage collected. But if these objects are still referenced, then the garbage collector can not remove these objects from the working memory. Further there are some objects stay in the memory through out the life of…
How to use Mutual TLS with client id and client secret In wso2 IS 5.5.0
This authenticator has the same architecture as the mutual authenticator, https://docs.wso2.com/display/IS550/Mutual+TLS+for+OAuth+Clients.
The only difference is we need to pass the client secret as an query param in the token request. In order to consume the…
