This guide explains how to replace traditional IAM users with AWS IAM Identity Center by defining permission sets, assigning them to groups and AWS accounts, and enabling users to log in via the SSO portal for seamless, secure access across multiple accounts.
Teleport aims to replace VPNs, bastion hosts, and access gateways, but faces stiff competition from direct rivals like HashiCorp Boundary, StrongDM, and Tailscale, as well as native solutions from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, each offering distinct strengths and ecosystem lock‑ins.
Amid growing organizational complexity and rising security incidents, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and leading enterprises have launched the Identity Governance Capability Maturity Model series standards—detailing evaluation frameworks, levels, and processes—to help organizations assess and improve identity governance, with open registration for 2024 assessments.
This article explains the MAC learning and aging processes, demonstrates MAC flooding and ARP spoofing attacks with practical test setups, and provides step‑by‑step configurations such as port security, access management, and DHCP snooping to protect network switches from these threats.
The article describes the challenges of resource isolation and permission management in a microservice environment, explains AWS IAM concepts and policies, and details the design, development, and expected benefits of the internally built OpenIAM service for unified authentication and authorization across services.
