Overview Many web applications do not need a complete SAML or OpenID Connect implementation. If your organization already uses Apereo CAS, Apache HTTP Server can authenticate users directly against CAS using: The architecture is straightforward: Apache handles the CAS login redirect … [Read more...] about Apache mod_auth_cas: Protect Web Applications with Apereo CAS and Docker
Certificate Transparency Monitoring
With the certificate transparency (CT) enforcement by Chrome, all publicly trusted TLS certificates are now logged in a distributed manner to multiple CT logs which brings us to discuss certificate transparency monitoring. The irony here is that while a PKI is based on trust, you cannot trust it … [Read more...] about Certificate Transparency Monitoring
PKI Weekly Watch: OpenSSL Security Fixes to Review
Opening summary This PKI Weekly Watch reviews still-relevant OpenSSL security fixes from June 2026 the release of OpenSSL 4.0.1, which patches seven security vulnerabilities discovered in recent months. These issues range from heap buffer over-reads to memory corruption and affect multiple OpenSSL … [Read more...] about PKI Weekly Watch: OpenSSL Security Fixes to Review
IIS SSL Certificate Renewal
This article will demonstrate how to in IIS perform an SSL certificate renewal. The CA used in this article is on the same domain as the IIS server. Install IIS on Windows If not already installed, enable Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows 10 or Windows 11 or a Windows … [Read more...] about IIS SSL Certificate Renewal
admincount Active Directory
The article will document and describe the admincount attribute in Active Directory. The primary purpose being that you may encounter an account in your Active Directory that has elevated privileges. The first step in determining if this is true is to look to see if admincount = 1. If so, there is a … [Read more...] about admincount Active Directory
Install .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2019
This article will demonstrate how to install .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2019. Unfortunately, some software still requires the older version of .NET making system administration of modern OS's more difficult than it should be. If the original installation of Server 2019 did not include .NET 3.5, you … [Read more...] about Install .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2019
Netscaler SSL Redirect
This article will demonstrate how to configure a Citrix Netscaler ssl redirect as well as how to configure a redirect from a port and rewrite action. Netscaler SSL Redirect This example will assume you already have a Virtual Server configured in your ADC VPX appliance and it's listening on … [Read more...] about Netscaler SSL Redirect
Java SecureRandom
Java SecureRandom lives in the java.security package, at java.security.SecureRandom. The number or value generated by this class is cryptographically strong and the generator is also known as a secure pseudo-random number generator (CSPRNG). Java SecureRandom examples The examples specify … [Read more...] about Java SecureRandom