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The Architecture of Identity Systems

Phil Windley

Summary: The architecture of an identity system has a profound impact on the nature of the relationships it supports. This blog post uses terminology and ideas from Sam's paper to classify and analyze three different identity system architectures. In particular his terminology was helpful to me. Wikipedia defines legitimacy as.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. Access is authorized based on business policies informed by identity and context.

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Balancing Resource Sharing in Multi-tenant Architectures with Single-tenant Services

KineticData

Understanding the Landscape In multi-tenant architectures, resources such as computing power, databases, and network resources are shared among various users or clients, referred to here as tenants. This article delves into these challenges, focusing on strategies to ensure security, scalability, and performance in shared environments.

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Zero Trust in the Real World: Practical Implementation and Challenges

SecureWorld News

Verify, don't trust This principle emphasizes continuous authentication and authorization based on all available data points. The key steps for successful deployment Implementing a Zero Trust architecture is a strategic and multi-faceted process that requires careful planning and execution.

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Authentic Digital Relationships

Phil Windley

In his article Architecture Eats Culture Eats Strategy , Tim Bouma makes the point that the old management chestnut Culture Eats Strategy leaves open the question: how do we change the culture. Tim's point is that architecture (in the general sense) is the upstream predator to culture. This is their fundamental architecture.

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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

My new book Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media covers many of the topics in this post such as multi-factor authentication, authorization and access control, and identity policy development in depth. User Authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Requiring users to provide multiple forms of verification (e.g.,

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Zero Trust: Your Best Friend in the Age of Advanced Threats

SecureWorld News

Step 1: Rethink your security architecture Zero Trust requires securing every layer—network, applications, identity, and access—while enforcing least privilege. Google moved away from VPNs, instead using device-based authentication and continuous access verification, ensuring that each access request is authenticated.