Today, Palo Alto Networks announced a critical security vulnerability affecting SAML certificate management across a range of their devices. While this vulnerability is isolated to Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, it impacts customers using these devices with independent identity providers (IDPs) that rely on the SAML protocol and who are using self-signed certificates, including customers of Okta. Complete details can be found in Palo Alto Networks’ security advisory, here:...

Plain-old authentication is boring. Today I'm going to show you how you can enhance your application's security by providing smart multi-factor authentication (MFA), the kind that takes contextual and behavior-based factors into account. Through this article, I'll explain how this security pattern works. Just know that this pattern is universally applicable to any web-based, mobile, or desktop applications. Why Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication? While normal MFA is a big step up...

Using technology as a reliable method of tracking carriers of COVID-19 is a great idea, but it is extremely hard to do without creating huge privacy challenges. What Is Contact Tracing and Why Is It Important? Contact tracing is a way of identifying all the people that an infected person has interacted with. By identifying these interactions, it is possible to reach out to them and ensure that they are properly quarantined. Doing this is incredibly important if you want to stop the spread of an...