Security / iam Dark mode Zero Trust Identity: Why Identity Is the New Perimeter For decades, security worked like a castle. You built a strong wall around the network, and anyone inside the wall was treated as trusted. Zero trust throws that model out. It starts from the assumption that no one, inside or outside, […]
Security / iam Dark mode What Is Multi-Factor Authentication? Multi-factor authentication, or MFA, is an authentication system that requires more than one distinct type of factor before it lets you in. A password alone is one factor, and passwords get stolen, guessed, and phished every day. Add a second factor of a different kind, and […]
Security / iam Dark mode The Principle of Least Privilege The principle of least privilege is one of the simplest ideas in security and one of the most violated. It says that every identity, whether a person, a device, an application, or an automated agent, should have only the minimum access it needs to do […]
Security / iam Dark mode RBAC vs ABAC: Which Access Model to Use Every system that controls who can do what has to answer one question: on what basis do we grant access? The two dominant answers are RBAC and ABAC. Role-based access control decides by who you are. Attribute-based access control decides by who […]