Towards the end of 2022, the European Commission published a draft for the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which is supposed to strengthen security-critical soft- and hardware in Europe. As a result, the damages caused by cybercrime are expected to decline. Overall, this is a very desirable goal yet it did not take long for the…

The Deutsche Forschungsnetz (DFN, German Research Cluster) promotes German research collaboration since 2007 with their federation DFN-AAI for institutions of higher education. In the federation, all services and resources of all participating institutions with just the regular individual user account from one’s respective home institution. In order to join the DFN-AAI participating institutions need to…

For more than a year there have been two versions of OpenLDAP, 2.5 and 2.6, yet there are more than a few who still use the version 2.4. This might be for different, sometimes very relatable, reasons. DAASI International however recommends to migrate to one of the higher versions. In the following text you can…

At the beginning of the year, the American company Gluu announced their new open source strategy with the promise of new opportunities for their customers. In order to ensure that the core functions of the Gluu Server will forever remain open source, the company started as recently as December 2020 the Janssen Project under the…

2021 December 11, German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has published an urgent warning regarding the “log4j 2” Java programming library [1]. See [2] for English information on this vulnerability. DAASI International is not generally using this software library, with few exceptions. The following DAASI International products and solutions are therefore not affected: OpenLDAP…