In increasingly complex IT infrastructures it is not only important to keep an overview but also to use the often limited resources as efficiently as possible. The containerisation of applications is a popular solution to address these issues in IT applications. This is often achieved with the open source platform Docker. There are several…

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…