Do not offload your thinking

Does it make sense to let other people (or tools) reason in our stead?

Provisioning: JIT vs SCIM

A trade-off comparison between two different provisioning strategies.

Single Sign-On (SSO): An Overview

What problems SSO solves and the difference between same-network and federated scopes.

What SAML is and how it handles SSO

Communication between different data centres and SSO made possible across different domains.

What LDAP is and when to use it

A well-established protocol that defines allows clients to peform a variety of operations on a directory server: user authentication, data storage and retrieval and more.

Notes on DIY Authentication

Why implementing authentication ourselves may not be so simple.