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KKazem MortazaviOct 17 · 3 min readPrivileged Accounts: The Smallest Weak Point That Can Take Down a NetworkMost major cyber incidents follow a familiar path. An attacker gets in through something small, such as a phishing email or a minor vulnerability, but the real target is an account with high privilegesecurityland.hashnode.dev
MMihai_LeanZeroOct 3 · 11 min readIdentity is the hard half of a Data Center migration. Cloud to Cloud hands it to you and charges you for the gaps instead.Identity is the hard half of a Data Center migration. Cloud to Cloud hands it to you and charges you for the gaps instead. Key takeaways DC to Cloud: identity is the expensive half. username and userleanzero.hashnode.dev
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KKarim El JamaliSep 23 · 12 min readCross-App Access: How an AI Agent Reaches an MCP Server It Doesn't Own Hooking an AI agent up to an MCP server is easy when you own both ends. It gets messier when the agent is yours, your users sign in through your company's Okta, and the MCP server belongs to someone ejamali.hashnode.dev
KKrishnam MurarkaSep 14 · 4 min readDeprovisioning Is Not a Message You Send, It Is a State You VerifyAn offboarding runs, the identity provider reports success, the connector logs a 2xx for every application in scope, and the ticket closes. What that sequence establishes is that each provider accepteedilec-engineering.hashnode.dev
KKalpick SharmaSep 12 · 8 min readThe Privacy Paradox: AI Personalization Without Surveillance in Web3We want AI products to feel personal. We want recommendations that understand us. Assistants that remember context. Interfaces that adapt to our needs. But there is an uncomfortable tradeoff hiding unkalpicksharma.hashnode.dev
TTushar OpeniamSep 10 · 7 min readThe Access Review Your Auditor Cannot Rely OnThe quarterly access certification campaign closed on schedule. Every item on the list received a decision. The completion rate was 100%. The records are filed. Then the auditor asks a follow-up questopeniam.hashnode.dev
ZZero Trust ThreadsSep 7 · 5 min readAuthentication vs. Authorization: Why the Difference MattersYou sign into an application. You enter your username. You provide your password or another authenticator. The application accepts it. Now you are logged in. Does that mean you should have access to ezerotrustthreads.hashnode.dev
RrathsaraAug 31 · 19 min readOpenID Connect: The Identity Layer OAuth Was MissingBy the time I actually heard the word OIDC, I'd already been through OAuth and PKCE conversations I hadn't fully understood, years apart from each other, and this one arrived even later than those. Itrr-cyber.hashnode.dev