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  • Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

    SAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between IdP (identity provider) and service provider. We can compare SAML with LDAP (as…

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  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

    Introduction Originally LDAP only refers to the connectivity protocol to the directory server. This term is being used loosely today and it also refers to…

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  • Introduction to Active Directory (AD)

    Workgroup, homegroup and Windows Domain A workgroup is a group of computers on the same local network. A Windows computer not joined to a domain…

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  • Nginx as a reverse proxy for Nifi web UI and Kibana

    Nginx can act as a application neutral proxy. One example is to front Nifi. The nifi default configuration provides an HTTP access point, specified in…

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  • Cryptography basics 2 of 2

    My previous post outlines several core concepts around cryptography, such as asymmetric key encryption, digital certificate, the encoding formats and relevant file extensions. In this…

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  • Cryptography Basics 1 of 2

    I have been dabbling with OpenSSL commands to achieve what I needed during IT implementation, but I decided to spent some time to overcome the…

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