Posts Tagged ‘SAML’

Identity management is HARD! But third parties are making it easy for us. We wanted to configure Content Hub for Single Sign-on authentication with Okta through SAML to match with Sitecore so the DAM popup would be seamless. This way the responsibility of manual user management will move away from content hub admins to the […]

If you’ve configured SAML with AEM and done a Google search on the matter, you’d have likely come across one of these lengthy examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] or looked at the Official AEM Doc for SAML integration. In this article, I’d like to show you 2 things: The fastest local SAML setup (which takes […]

The question that is often asked is: Can we leverage the same security we already have in Oracle Fusion SaaS (which includes users, duties, roles and security policies) to secure data in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC – an Oracle PaaS)? The answer is Yes. To understand better how this is possible, keep reading. This blog […]

Azure Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s directory and Identity and Access Management (IAM) service in the cloud as opposed to ADFS, a Windows on-premise, claims-based Security Token Service (STS). In a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) federation however, Azure AD and ADFS are functionally equivalent acting as Identity Provider (IdP) for a Service Provider (SP) such as a […]

Sitecore 9.0 introduced a new and very useful feature to easily add federated authentication to the platform. Authentication has been and still is being performed using the ASP.NET Membership functionality for standard Sitecore users, however, Sitecore has implemented the ability to use the new ASP.NET Identity functionality that is based OWIN-middleware. Here’s a stripped-down look […]

Why the Guide? The Adobe documentation is a great reference for SAML2 setup. However, it lacks background information and certain implementation details and tips that can be critical to implementing SAML2 on AEM 6.x. Hopefully this guide will help! https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/administer/security/saml-2-0-authenticationhandler.html What is SAML2? Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) is a version of the […]

Applications which are exposed as web services need high level security procedures. “Identity silos” – a stand-alone identity store which possess access control rights and privileges of identities are creating serious problems when an applications are willing to integrate to multiple applications in different domains. Hence Identity Bridging overcomes the issues created when using Identity […]

This tutorial series explains how to issue and validate different types of tokens such as JWT(JSON Web Token) , SAML HoK(Holder-of key) using IBM DataPower gateway. In this article, you learn about the issuance and validation of JWT with firmware v 7.2.0.0. In Part-2, you will learn to issue and validate the JWT with firmware […]

So last week we briefly touched on the characteristics of a good IdM solution or at least an environment that was IdM hygienic.  Some of those characteristics included the following: View, create, modify, and delete users Change passwords Add or delete a user in a security group Approve or reject requests Delegate all permissions This […]