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What is SAML?
What is SAML? SAML, which stands for Security Assertion Markup Language, is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider and a service provider.
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Meet the Author of Multiple OpenVPN Books
My name is Jan Just Keijser — otherwise known as JJK in OpenVPN circles. I am an IT professional with about 25 years of experience, and I've been using OpenVPN for nearly 16 years now. I currently work as a Software Engineer at Nikhef, a physics research lab in Amsterdam. I work on high performance and high throughput computing. I have also
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Increase Your Network Security Using These Simple Tools
We live in an age where cyberattacks are not just something that impact a select few companies. In 2020, it’s almost the norm for a company to get hit by a cyberattack or data breach.
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Industries Impacted By Cyber Attacks
Cyberattacks have become more frequent since the turn of the century, and it's clear that the online crime threat isn't going away. While all organizations are now susceptible to online attacks, specific industries tend to be more targeted than others — especially if they don't take the necessary precautions. Whether your industry is oil and gas,
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DIY MFA Setup | Community Edition
We’re going to use oathtool for our DIY setup on a FreeBSD host. These steps should be nearly identical on a Linux host, however. We need to create a file with our users and secrets. These secrets are the same secrets your users will import into their MFA application (OTP Auth, Google Authenticator, Okta Verify, etc.).
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Commercial MFA Setup
Okta provides a free level for their developer accounts, which is what I used for this example. I use Okta in my day job (as a sysadmin), and the setup and configuration are the same, so this is a safe avenue for exploration and testing.
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Remote Work Chronicles
Remote work advocates have been calling it for years: someday, working from home is going to be the new normal. And now their predictions are coming true.
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Remote Work Spotlight: How COVID19 Started Justin's Journey
While remote work has been steadily increasing for a while, a lot of people didn’t make the switch until very recently when circumstances mandated it. This is the case for Justin, one of the OpenVPN employees who recently switched to working from home. Justin works in infrastructure and DevOps, and one of his chief responsibilities is server
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Remote Work Spotlight: How Eliza Has Achieved a Better Work-Life Balance
Eliza Xiahong Pan, is the Lead Java Developer at OpenVPN. For a long time she had worked from an office location, but she switched to working from home to avoid virus exposure. As a developer, everything Eliza does can be done completely remotely — there is never any real need for her to go into the office. As long as the novel coronavirus is
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