Tag: authorization

TGIF XACML

TGIF XACML – What’s a XACML target?

Today’s Friday, the weather has been amazingly nice these past few weeks in Stockholm which is all the more surprising since September is on the slope down to darker, wetter, and colder days. The weekend ahead looks promising. I’ll be heading out to fellow colleague, Andreas’ summer house out in the archipelago. But before I walk out the door, I thought I’d share a bit of XACML know-how to chew on over the next couple of days. In the training sessions we regularly give at Axiomatics, attendees often ask what a target is. XACML Target Definition A target is an element of the XACML policy language. It can occur in policy sets, policies, and rules. The target is used to […]

Identity & Access Management

Ready to roll at the Cloud Identity Summit 2013, Napa #CISNapa

It’s already day 2 of the Cloud Identity Summit. Day 1 focused on workshops and so will day 2 along with bootcamps and interops including workshops on Microsoft Identity & the Cloud. Standards will be hailed like never before: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM will be represented in a standards-focused workshop while SAML, the star of the conference, will be highlighted in a hands-on demo of PingFederate by John Da Silva. In the afternoon, I will have the privilege of completing the standards quintet as I take on my developer hat to talk about XACML, and the latest efforts around REST and JSON APIs / encoding for XACML 3.0. I will be uploading my slides later for those of […]

XACML Bites

Call out to a XACML Policy Decision Point (PDP) from PHP

Today, I have the pleasure to invite a fellow colleague, Patrick McDowell, to post on my blog. Today’s topic is around reaching out to other languages other than just Java and C# for XACML-based authorization. Today’s choice? PHP, naturellement as both Patrick and I are huge WordPress fans. If you have been programming in PHP it is very likely that you have interacted with an external authentication service. For example Google and Facebook provide external authentication services that people can use to allow other providers to authenticate users for you using standard protocols such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID. Once a user has been authenticated, we then need to determine what that user is authorized to do inside of an […]