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I had a different name for this blog entry but just ‘Jump Drive’ is an awful blog title. They go by many names; jump drive, USB drive, flash drive, memory stick and a few others, but removable media is a serious threat to IT organizations. Graduating from floppy disks, as early as 20...
Joe McKendrick kicks off a thread on the current state of SOA Security. As usual, most discussion of SOA Security applies to "how SOA can be made secure". This is understandable. And, as some commentators have pointed out, there is a body of Best Practice out there on how to secure ser...
Single sign-on was developed with the idea of making life more convenient for the user, but you may have to put a little more work into it to make that convenience a reality.
It's a problem as old as networked computing. Consider two applications. They negotiate a level of trust. How can that trust - or security context - be transferred to a third application, one that may exist in an entirely different security domain from the first?
With the rise of asynchronous messaging comes the need for securing message flows in WebSphere MQ. This article discusses the architecture of WebSphere MQ, along with some options available for securing an asynchronous communications infrastructure.