SSH Tunneling Explained

Recently I wanted to set up a remote desktop sharing session from home pc to my laptop. While going through the set up guide I came across ssh tunneling. Even though there are many articles on the subject still it took me a considerable amount of googling, some experimenting and couple of Wireshark sessions to grasp what’s [...]

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A Thing or Two About Apache Rampart – Part II

Continuing my adventure with Apache Rampart from my earlier article I decided to follow the DeveloperWorks article on WS-Security. Again I ran in to some issues when I tried using signatures within the messages. Here is a brief account of what happened this time. First road block I encountered was the error shown below. The [...]

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A Thing or Two About Apache Rampart

It seems web service security is not the easiest thing to get right the first time as some things in life (at least for me ). I found this the hard way by trying to secure a service web service deployed in Axis2 with Rampart. Idea was simple. To make a service require a time [...]

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ISO27001 & its Business Value

Today most of the businesses have become IT reliant for their core business and administrative activities. Since IT systems play a central role in mangament of sensitive corporate data, information security these systems provide has become a very important aspect. Now with the rapid rise of internet and e-commerce the security requirements has become higher [...]

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