Security
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Software Development
Securing the Insecure
The 33 years old, Craig Spencer returned back to USA on 17th October from Africa after treating Ebola patients. Just…
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DevOps
How to use SSH tunneling to get to your restricted servers
Have you ever been told that in your network serverX can only be reached by a serverY via SSH? Now…
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Core Java
How to setup custom SSLSocketFactory’s TrustManager per each URL connection
We can see from javadoc that javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection provided a static method to override with setDefaultSSLSocketFory() method. This allow you to…
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Software Development
Single Sign-On with the Delegated Access Control Pattern
Suppose a medium-scale enterprise has a limited number of RESTful APIs. Company employees are allowed to access these APIs via…
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Software Development
WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 Authentication Framework
The WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 takes the identity management into a new direction. No more there will be federation silos…
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Enterprise Java
Identity Anti-patterns: Federation Silos and Spaghetti Identity
A recent research done by the analyst firm Quocirca confirms that many businesses now have more external users than internal…
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Software Development
Chained Access Delegation Pattern
Suppose a medium-scale enterprise that sells bottled water has a RESTful API (Water API) that can be used to update…
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Core Java
Getting A List of Available Cryptographic Algorithms
How do you learn what cryptographic algorithms are available to you? The Java spec names several required ciphers, digests, etc.,…
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Software Development
Trust instead of Threats
According to Dr. Gary McGraw’s ground breaking work on software security, up to half of security mistakes are made in…
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