3 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...
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The 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...
Read articleTesting the py-fortress RBAC0 System
The Command Line Interpreter (CLI) may be used to drive the RBAC System APIs, to test, verify and understand a particular RBAC policy....
Read articleUsing the py-fortress Command Line Interpreter
The Command Line Interpreter (CLI) drives the admin and review APIs, allowing ad-hoc RBAC setup and interrogation. More info in the...
Read articleIntroducing a pythonic RBAC API
py-fortress is a Python API implementing Role-Based Access Control level 0 – Core. It’s still pretty new so there’s going to be some...
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