Tag: identity

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Amazon OpenSearch is an open search and log analytics service, powered by the Apache Lucene search library. In this blog post, we provide step-by-step guidance for SP-initiated SSO by showing how to set up a trial Ping Identity account. We’ll show how to build users and groups within your organization’s directory and enable SSO in OpenSearch Dashboards. To use this feature, you must enable fine-grained access control. Rather than authenticating through Amazon Cognito or the internal user database, SAML authentication for OpenSearch Dashboards lets you use third-party identity providers to log in. Ping Identity is an AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Editorial Team. By Farooq Ashraf, Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers are leveraging Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to build their solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon EKS provides SaaS builders with a range of different constructs that can be used to implement multi-tenant strategies. Recently, we introduced an AWS SaaS Factory EKS Reference Architecture that illustrated how these different constructs could be applied in an end-to-end working environment. To build on the reference solution, I wanted to look at how Istio Service Mesh could be used to ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Chris Butler. If the hype surrounding the metaverse results in something real, it could improve the way you live, work, and play. Or it could create a hellworld where you don’t get to be who you are or want to be.  Whatever people think they’ve read, the metaverse originally imagined in Snow Crash is not a vision for an ideal future. In the novel, it’s a world that replaced the “real world” so that people would feel less bad about the reality they actually had. In the end, the story is about the destabilization of the individual’s ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Kurt A Cagle. This morning, I downloaded an app that puts my vaccination record on my phone, including the two Covid-19 vaccinations I received earlier this year. What drove me to do so was simple - Washington State is now under a vaccine mandate, meaning that you cannot sit down in a restaurant without some proof of vaccination. I have my card, but it's definitely getting dog-eared, and increasingly, my identity is tied up with my phone, which is also both fingerprint and PIN secured.I have had my wallet stolen before. When that happened, it ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Kurt A Cagle. This morning, I downloaded an app that puts my vaccination record on my phone, including the two Covid-19 vaccinations I received earlier this year. What drove me to do so was simple - Washington State is now under a vaccine mandate, meaning that you cannot sit down in a restaurant without some proof of vaccination. I have my card, but it's definitely getting dog-eared, and increasingly, my identity is tied up with my phone, which is also both fingerprint and PIN secured.I have had my wallet stolen before. When that happened, it ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Kurt A Cagle. This morning, I downloaded an app that puts my vaccination record on my phone, including the two Covid-19 vaccinations I received earlier this year. What drove me to do so was simple - Washington State is now under a vaccine mandate, meaning that you cannot sit down in a restaurant without some proof of vaccination. I have my card, but it's definitely getting dog-eared, and increasingly, my identity is tied up with my phone, which is also both fingerprint and PIN secured.I have had my wallet stolen before. When that happened, it ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Kurt A Cagle. This morning, I downloaded an app that puts my vaccination record on my phone, including the two Covid-19 vaccinations I received earlier this year. What drove me to do so was simple - Washington State is now under a vaccine mandate, meaning that you cannot sit down in a restaurant without some proof of vaccination. I have my card, but it's definitely getting dog-eared, and increasingly, my identity is tied up with my phone, which is also both fingerprint and PIN secured.I have had my wallet stolen before. When that happened, it ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from any document or image, now offers specialized support to extract data from identity documents, such U.S. Driver Licenses and U.S. Passports. You can extract implied fields like name and address, as well as explicit fields like Date of Birth, Date of Issue, Date of Expiry, ID #, ID Type, and more in the form of key-value pairs. Until today, current OCR based solutions were limited, and did not offer the ability to extract all the required fields accurately due to rich ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Kurt A Cagle. This morning, I downloaded an app that puts my vaccination record on my phone, including the two Covid-19 vaccinations I received earlier this year. What drove me to do so was simple - Washington State is now under a vaccine mandate, meaning that you cannot sit down in a restaurant without some proof of vaccination. I have my card, but it's definitely getting dog-eared, and increasingly, my identity is tied up with my phone, which is also both fingerprint and PIN secured.I have had my wallet stolen before. When that happened, it ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Roy Rodan. By Roy Rodan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS CyberArk AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is where you create or connect your workforce identities in Amazon Web Services (AWS) once and manage access centrally across your AWS Organization. We recently announced a new integration with CyberArk Workforce Identity to provide simplified access management and provisioning to AWS. As a supported identity provider (IdP) for AWS SSO, CyberArk Workforce Identity enables you to manage AWS user identities outside of AWS and give these users permissions to access AWS resources across all of ... Read More