ID I aM

I have been playing with F5 LTM APM since 2012 and noticed that it is getting popular and more prominent. The easy interface and configuration makes a tool of professional choice. I have advising many network teams on how to configure and properly use F5 with different vendors IAM. It is even more important as F5 has Virtual Edition meaning you can design your private cloud IAM and enjoy F5 SSO to your protected apps. The trick is to make sure you have license for the Application Policy Manager - APM. As you can see from the screenshot above once APM is licensed it is just one pull-down from the menu. You can configure F5 to be your SAML IDP or SP the choice is limited to your imagination. In the next posts I will walk through typical SAML SSO setup with Oracle Access Manager Stay tuned :)

Starting to feel a sense of frustration. No it doesn't effect me personally. I am still the same 'white hat' as always. I went through the series of interviews for different positions recently. It was an absolute waste of time. What caught my attention is a level of arrogance and mindless stupidity coming from the people who should be paying attention. Each interview was along same well travelled paths: Can you install software? Can you connect it to the ERP (or whatever they connecting it to) ? etc. So they all concentrate on the Functional requirements. Most forget the security of your software falls into the Non-Functional requirements. No one had a slightest idea that before you implement Functional requirements you need to make sure that your 'Security Software' being it Sailpoint, Oracle or Forgerock or whatever: is in itself secured. The buzz word 'security software' doesn't make it to be secure on its own. Someone has to do it. Otherwis...

Was talking to my friend 'White Hat' He is still hopefull and optimistic. Alone as everyone left to the BlackHat he still picking at his bugs and whatever he can find there. Will he be able to deliver on the promise and save us from Darth forces? I hope he will.

I find it extremely interesting that Linus Torvalds Linkedin profile doesn't have any 'Recommendations: Received (0) Given (1) Linus hasn’t received any recommendations yet.' You may say he doesn't need it. Everyone knows he invented Linux. Well almost everyone :) But it also shows and reflects the world we are living. You barely hear his name and he is not in the news. I know people with 10, 100 recommendations. It is all about building and maintaing your connections. So the old saying goes: "Its not what you know, its who you know" It works amazingly well even nowadays in the age of knowledge. I think of the Linus legacy and I think of: Security and stability Extensibility and simplicity I think of Bill Gates legacy and I think of: Unsecure and untrustworthy Proprietory and complex One is humble and down to earth creator The other is shrewd and cunning businessman One is doing OK The other is billionaire You can now run Linux on Windo...

Cloud Wars are upon us. We had no choice and no one really asked us whether we want them. They came to bind us all. Those who live with their heads in the clouds and feet on the ground will survive. Those who don't won't. It is irrelevant what you think or do. Very few people are really think and know what is really going. The Developer as it was and is now will disappear. You can develop whatever you want and eventually it will be offered as a Service by them. You too small and no one can see you. They will swallow everything and everyone. The idea is very neat and smart. If you hold the 'Shift' key and type number 4 it will give you an answer - $. Yes it is 4 big Cloud providers out there: Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon and Google (MOAG) Everything will run in the Cloud (MOAG). Even if you crazy talented and develop something outstanding and use MOAG to run your next big thing eventually they will swallow you. Think Netflix on Amazon. Netflix was a king un...

There are around 8 billion people on this planet. Do the Math its quite simple. As far as an outside world is concerned you don't exist. You can't prove you exist. No one who is outside of your immediate family knows you exist. No one really cares if you exist or what you do unless it directly or indrectly affects them. Creating profile on Linkedin or Facebook doesn't prove you exist. Shouting from the top of your lungs doesn't prove you exist. What then? Help somebody, love, raise the children (yours or somebody else's), listen to the music and dedicate yourself to the cause bigger than your own ego. Then when you die you will know that you have existed :) There are around 8 billion people on this planet. Do the Math its quite simple. As far as an outside world is concerned you don't exist. ........................ ......... ... .

Have been using Soundcloud for some time and love it simple interface and ability to quickly share music. Recently learned that SoundCloud closing some of their offices. Times are tough but hopefully they continue to offer free music sharing platform Check out my 'Madrid at Night' recording https://soundcloud.com/anatoly-smolyansky-37777993/madrid-at-night