AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources. You use IAM to control who is authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permissions) to use resources. IAM is universal, not regional. All accounts start with a root account, it has complete Admin access. New users […]
Enterprise Authentication
These are some notes on how authentication can be done in an enterprise. This all falls under Identity and Access Management. Some ways of doing identity verification: Direct Authentication – app maintains user identity information Username / Password Smart cards Biometrics Federated Third-party authentication – SAML/OAuth Some ways of using identity: AuthN AuthZ Identity Delgation […]