At the core of a biometric system is the one-to-many identification process, where the input sample is compared with the stored templates in the biometric database. It is considered a “positive match” when the comparison of the input sample and a stored template is above a pre-defined threshold. When… Read More »
I can understand why Dorothy was so worried. Customers often struggle with the question of if they should integrate their OAM environment and applications with WebGates on each application, or use a general reverse proxy farm. This question recently came up on a customer project, and the simple answer… Read More »
“And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then avoid Active Directory” – paraphrased from Hamlet: Act I, Scene III. Who would have thought Shakespeare was such a visionary? He's right though; you pretty much always need to plan for integrating Active Directory.… Read More »
“Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt the need for SSO in your Fusion Middleware deployment” – paraphrased from Hamlet Act II, Scene II. Okay, so I might have taken some creative license with the real quote. The point, however, is that no matter… Read More »
All the Active Directory forests are a stage, and all the objects merely players; they have their authentication and their data; one object in its time plays many parts, its acts being impersonated. My deepest apologizes, once again, to William Shakespeare; however, I felt his quote on “all the… Read More »
To WAM or not to WAM, that is the question! (Part 3) a blog by Marc Boorshtein - Mythics Consulting Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of custom code or take time to deploy a web access management solution... Ok, my deepest apologizes to Shakespeare and all that speak… Read More »
Questions to ask when considering what authentication to integrate into your application (Part 2) a blog by Marc Boorshtein - Mythics Consulting In my last blog post I covered some basic terminology which is used when looking at authentication and identity federation. In this installment… Read More »
SAML, OAuth and Browser ID, Oh My! (Part 1) a blog by Marc Boorshtein - Mythics Consulting Recently the Mozilla foundation released a new federation system called BrowserID that's designed to simplify authentication to websites. What is BrowserID? How do you choose between BrowserID,… Read More »
