With increasing incidents of online frauds through username/password compromises and stolen/forged identity credentials – Strong authentication using multi-factor credentials is often considered as a defensive solution for ensuring high-degree of identity assurance to accessing Web applications. Adopting multi-factor credentials based authentication has also become a most common security requirement for enabling access control to critical online banking transactions and to safeguard online customer information (Mandated by FFIEC… Read more »
When it comes to application security, Secure coding is the first line of defense….and it is very critical to follow the best practice patterns and avoid pitfalls to secure the application from known risks and vulnerabities. The Java Security team has just released the updated – “Secure Coding Guidelines for the Java Programming Language, Version 3.0” . Certainly it included a newer set of… Read more »
Java EE 6 RI was released few weeks ago….I am bit late to have my first look 🙂 Without a doubt, the new Web container security enhancements are very compelling for any budding or experienced Java developer working on Web applications. The Java EE 6 has unveiled several new security features with ease of use and targetted for simplified Web… Read more »
Interesting news..I am not sure how far this story is true ! The Iraqi insurgents has used the SkyGrabber utility to eavesdrop the live video feeds from the US Drones…as reported by Wallstreet journal yesterday. Quite interesting to note, the multi-million dollar unmanned aircraft did’nt use “Encrypted Communication” in first place. It’s time for them to deploy a tamper-proof encrypted… Read more »
The untold reality is ….when your Web application on the DMZ hits the Internet… the colorful performance graphs/numbers does’nt mean anything ! Unless your performance guru in the lab captured the QoS requirements and realized it proactively and accounted its actual overheads associated with Security, Network bandwidth, High-availability and other mission-critical requirements. Otherwise…performance is the nagging issue that every datacenter guy gnaws…. when an application… Read more »
Last night, CBS ran a 60 Minutes report on “Sabotaging the System” highlighting the potential dangers associated with the security vulnerabilities of critical government IT systems. More than news, CBS presented this story with special insights from cybersecurity experts and disclosed some scary facts…serious stuff and hard to ignore ! I am sure this story will raise the heat on some who… Read more »
I admit that I am not a SOA expert or pretend to be one ! Lately, I had a chance to explore few security features intended for securing XML Web Services and Java EE applications. With my little knowledge to SOA, I found that XML Web services play a vital role in SOA to enable loosely-coupled services and ensuring interoperability. From a security perspective, the core foundation… Read more »
Last few weeks, I have been pulled into an interesting gig for demonstrating security for _____ SOA/XML Web Services and Java EE applications…. so I had a chance to play with some untold security features of Solaris 10. KSSL is one of the unsung yet powerful security features of Solaris 10. As the name identifies, KSSL is a Solaris Kernel Module that… Read more »
Looks like convergence projects are in the limelight… lately I noticed a lot of interests on enabling the use of common credentials for securely accessing physical and logical resources. Although we find most convergence projects are targeted at the enterprise level but there are serious minds working on using smartcard based PKI credentials for supporting citizen-scale projects (I regret that… Read more »