Security

Learn how to secure the software supply chain by embracing best practices such as secure coding, CI/CD integration, SBOMs, and proactive monitoring.

This blog post guides you through the process of generating SSL wildcard certificates using ACME challenges and Certbot, helping secure your domains with Let’s Encrypt.

In this post we will deploy gatekeeper to a kubernetes cluster. We will then define constraints and ensure that gatekeeper enforces those constraints.

Threat modeling is an effective tool used to understand the threat landscape within an enterprise network. Threat modeling is a security practice for the team to identify threats, attacks, and risks based on the existing architecture design, and to mitigate these potential security risks. It is the process of looking at all the significant and likely potential threats to a scoped scenario, ranking their potential damage in a given time period, and figuring cost‐effective mitigations to defeat the highest‐priority threats. The threat modeling exercise enables organizations to get a better understanding of the threats targeting them. It enables them to be better prepared to prioritize strategies for reducing their attack surface. Threat modeling is very commonly used as a part of the software development life cycle. It enables all participants in the software development process to efficiently create and deliver secure software with a greater degree of confidence that all security flaws are understood and accounted for. ...

JSON Web Token(JWT) is an industry standard for security tokens used to securely transmit information between client and server as JSON objects.It provides a solution to the problem of passing claims between parties. In this post we will create an Angular interceptor to introspect JWT tokens.

OpenID Connect is a simple identity layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. OpenID Connect is all about authentication while OAuth is an authorization protocol. In OAuth, authorization is delegated while in OpenID Connect, authentication is delegated. OpenID Connect allows clients to verify end users based on the authentication performed by an auth server. It is also used to obtain basic profile information about the end user in a standards-based, interoperable and REST-like manner. OpenID Connect provides a standard way to obtain user identity.A central part of the OpenID Connect specification is the ID Token. It provides an identity token with information about the user. It also defines an endpoint to get identity information for that user, such as their name or e-mail address. This endpoint is called the user info endpoint. The identity token is a simple JWT token signed by the OpenID provider(OP) through OAuth protocol to suit web, mobile, and browser-based applications.The Identity token is encoded into the base 64 URL-safe string that contains information such as subject (sub), issuing authority (iss), audience (aud), and more. It may also contain some extra information about the user or custom claims in a set of scopes. As OpenID Connect is built on top of the Oauth2 protocol, the flows are the same. It can be used with the authorization code grant and the implicit grant. It’s not possible with the client credentials grant, as the client credentials grant is for server-to-server communication.As part of the oAuth flow, Instead of only requesting an access token, we can request an additional ID token from the security token service (STS) that implements the OpenID Connect specification. The client receives an ID token, and usually, also an access token. The ID token is kept small with the minimal information in it. To get more information for the authenticated user, the client can then send a request to the user info endpoint with the access token. This user info endpoint will then return the claims about the new user. ...

JSON Web Token(JWT) is an industry standard for security tokens used to securely transmit information between client and server as JSON objects.It provides a solution to the problem of passing claims between parties. In this post we will be implementing a JWT token server which will serve tokens to users with the appropriate credentials.

JSON Web Token(JWT) is an industry standard for security tokens used to securely transmit information between client and server as JSON objects.It provides a solution to the problem of passing claims between parties.

There are two types of tokens in OAuth 2.0, the access token, and the refresh token. Access token The access token represents the authorization of a specific application to access specific parts of a user’s data. Access tokens must be kept confidential in transit and in storage. The only parties that should ever see the access token are the application itself, the authorization server, and resource server. The access token can only be used over an https connection, since passing it over a non-encrypted channel would make it trivial for third parties to intercept. ...

OAuth2 is an open authorization standard designed to provide an authentication and authorization protocol for the web.OAuth 2 was created with the intention of providing a way to grant limited access to protected content hosted by third-party services in a standardized and open manner.