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LDAP vs. Active Directory: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

LDAP vs. Active Directory: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When you have multiple operating systems and devices connected together, you need a centralized directory service to control authentication and authorization. As a protocol it can be used by various directory services including Active Directory. What Is LDAP?

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Highlights From the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and What It Means for the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

22, 2023, President Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2024. Approved annually, the NDAA primarily authorizes appropriations and sets policy requirements for the U.S. Department of State activities, the intelligence community and other defense activities.

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Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 1, Compute and Security

AWS Disaster Recovery

Building a multi-Region application requires lots of preparation and work. In this 3-part blog series, we’ll explore AWS services with features to assist you in building multi-Region applications. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll look at the application and management layers. In Part 2, we’ll add in data and replication strategies.

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School Security & Active Shooter Interdiction: A Q&A With Vince Riden

Security Industry Association

It’s important to promote a safe learning environment for every student and protect the teachers, staff and visitors in our schools, and SIA appreciates the many talented security professionals who are working diligently each day to enhance the safety and security of our schools and mitigate active shooter threats.

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What is Zero Trust Architecture?

Pure Storage

Every single new connection attempt should be treated with rigorous authentication and authorization. Only grant users and applications the minimum amount of access needed to do their jobs, such as admins. Continuous monitoring: Zero trust continuously monitors network activity and user behavior in real-time.

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Build Sophisticated Apps for Your PagerDuty Environment Using OAuth 2.0 and API Scopes by Mandi Walls

PagerDuty

Teams might have any number of workflows that might benefit from a custom application. Creating custom applications for PagerDuty can help with those administrative tasks when another component is the System of Record for that data. We’ll use a sample application that our engineering team has published as an example.

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ISC West Keynote Speaker Michael Bouchard Shares Lessons Learned From Active Shooter Response & Recovery

Security Industry Association

In this Q&A, SIA spoke with Bouchard about his career in public safety, takeaways from Oakland County’s response to the Oxford High School active shooter incident in 2021, security technology’s role in public safety and addressing workforce development challenges. What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your career in public safety?