Who put ABAC in my RBAC?
Readers know that Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) is a bit of an obsession with me. It stems from the want to have something like...
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OpenLDAP for Linux Support from Symas Corporation
A few weeks ago, I posted about Red Hat and SuSE and their plans to withdraw support for OpenLDAP from their upcoming Linux releases. In...
Read articleLarge University Switches to Symas OpenLDAP, Sees Immediate Success
In 2001, a well known private university in Northern California with annual enrollments of over 16,000, was juggling its directory...
Read article3 Turn Productions applauds service from Symas
Symas Gives Startup Exemplary Support and Service In 2013 the president of Three Turn Productions, Judy Tyrer, reached out to Symas for...
Read articleThe Apache Directory Project announces the 8th release of Fortress
The Apache Directory Project Announced Version 2.0.1 of Apache Fortress Apache Fortress is a computer security access management facility...
Read articleTowards an Attribute-Based Role-Based Access Control System
[Link to the Apache Fortress RBAC-ABAC-SAMPLE project on Github] We’ve all heard the complaint, RBAC doesn’t work. It leads to Role...
Read articleHow I Built an Access Management System Using Apache Directory Fortress
Watching application teams struggle implementing access control systems brings me to a talk I gave at ApacheCon a couple of years ago....
Read articleHoward Chu Shares What to Expect with OpenLDAP 2.5
Howard Chu is the Chief Technology Officer at Symas, the Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP Project, and an overall amazingly entertaining...
Read articleOracle Lays off Mission Control Team after Open Sourcing Product
Last week, Slashdot carried a story about Oracle Open Sourcing a product line as an opportunity to let the developers go. THIS IS A...
Read articleProgramming in Python using the py-fortress RBAC APIs
Very soon we’ll have a release of py-fortress that works with just the file system. This is to lower complexity of testing and developing...
Read articleA Message From Our President regarding Red Hat and SuSE
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT REGARDING RED HAT AND SUSE REMOVING OPENLDAP FROM THEIR LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS A few weeks ago, one of our...
Read articleNew Sheriff in Town
And it don’t need no stinking badges. Yeah, I’m mixing clichés, happens sometimes when coding long hours in a stretch. :-) What I’m...
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