Understanding The Implications Of The Data Breaches At Microsoft.

Note: I started this article last weekend to try and explain the attack path “Midnight Blizzard” used and what Azure admins should do to protect themselves from a similar attack. Unfortunately, I couldn’t complete/publish it in time and now there is another breach at Microsoft. (🤦🏿) Now, I had to completely redraft it and change … Read more

What Makes SM2 Encryption Special? China’s Recommended Algorithm

This article is intended for security enthusiasts or otherwise for people with an advanced understanding of Cryptography and some Programming. I have tried to give in some background theory a very basic implementation. Are there backdoors in AES and what is China’s response to it? The US NIST has been pushing AES as the standard … Read more

How to select SSO Standard for your SaaS Application.

For anyone developing any application on the cloud, the major concern is always how is security implemented. Typically, you start with an authentication system viz. Usernames & Passwords. As your application grows in size of use cases and adoption, you’ll soon find a necessity to improve your security posture, these could range from MFA, Federated … Read more