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Apr 26, 2020

Internet and Cyber Attacks - 2

This is the second blog of the series discussing the internet and cyber attacks. You can find the first blog here. Phishing Attacks The purpose of phishing attacks is to obtain resources and information such as usernames, passwords, credit card details by disguising as a trustworthy entity. This is commonly done through…

Internet

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Internet and Cyber Attacks - 2
Internet and Cyber Attacks - 2

Apr 26, 2020

Internet and Cyber Attacks- 1

This is the first blog of the series discussing the internet and cyber attacks. According to Wikipedia, an attack is any attempt to expose, alter, disable, destroy, steal, or gain unauthorized access to or make unauthorized use of an asset. …

Security

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Internet and Cyber Attacks- 1
Internet and Cyber Attacks- 1

Oct 9, 2019

Is Email/SMS OTP a second factor? Internet Identity Workshop(IIW-29)

This is the first time I participated in the Internet Identity Workshop and It was an amazing workshop. The event was held in the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Califonia. …

Security

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Internet Identity Workshop(IIW) XXIX
Internet Identity Workshop(IIW) XXIX

Sep 25, 2019

WSO2 Identity Server High-level Architecture — Part 1

Introduction The purpose of this blog is to explain the high-level architecture of the WSO2 Identity Server. WSO2 Identity Server supports almost all the standard authentication and provisioning protocols such as OpenId Connect, SAML, SCIM by default. This blog post explains the component architecture and the flow/sequence of authentication and provisioning…

Wso 2

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WSO2 Identity Server High-level Architecture
WSO2 Identity Server High-level Architecture

May 16, 2019

Idle User Account Suspension in WSO2 Identity Server

The purpose of this blog is to explain what user account suspension, the use cases of this feature and how it is implemented in WSO2 Identity Server. Some organizations support self user registration capability for the end users. …

Wso 2

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Idle User Account Suspension in WSO2 Identity Server
Idle User Account Suspension in WSO2 Identity Server

May 16, 2019

Password expiration Feature in WSO2 Identity Server.

In order to support better security, password policies are enforced by organizations. Following are such kind of policies Password Patterns Password History validation. Password expiry validation. The purpose of this blog is to explain what password expiry validation is, the use cases of it and the implementation. Use cases of Password Expiration. Due to human…

Wso 2

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Password expiration Feature in WSO2 Identity Server.
Password expiration Feature in WSO2 Identity Server.

May 16, 2019

Admin initiated Password reset feature in WSO2 Identity Server

The purpose of this blog is to explain what the admin initiated password reset feature is, use cases of this feature and how it is implemented in WSO2 identity server. What is ‘Admin initiated Password reset’ feature? There are some cases where privileged users want to force to change the passwords of end users. So, the ‘Admin…

Security

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Admin initiated Password reset feature in WSO2 Identity Server
Admin initiated Password reset feature in WSO2 Identity Server

May 14, 2019

Ask Password Feature in WSO2 Identity Server

The purpose of this blog post is to explain what ask password feature is, when this feature should be used, use cases and its implementation. What is the Ask Password Feature? There are different ways of creating users into the systems. Users themselves can self-register to the systems, Administrative users can create users to the system. …

Wso 2

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Ask Password Feature in WSO2 Identity Server
Ask Password Feature in WSO2 Identity Server

May 13, 2019

Self User Registration — WSO2 Identity Server

The purpose of this blog post is to explain the ways of self-registering users to the Identity Server, security aspects and how it is implemented. What is Self User Registration? Some applications allow users to register to the system by themselves. …

Wso 2

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Self User Registration — WSO2 Identity Server
Self User Registration — WSO2 Identity Server

May 12, 2019

Password Policy Management in WSO2 Identity Server

Most of the applications use a password to authenticate to the system. In order to prevent unauthorized logins and secure user accounts from attackers, it is required to have a proper password which is hard to guess or identify. …

Security

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Password Policy Management in WSO2 Identity Server
Password Policy Management in WSO2 Identity Server
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Senior Technical Lead — WSO2

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