Technology

Cross-domain SSO with Google into AWS Console using SAML

Recently, I worked on a task wherein the users had to be authenticated based on existing Google credentials to get access of AWS Management Console. It took more time than expected to make it work as the documentation provided by Google is not complete. Let’s start by setting this up step by step. Scenario: Provide […]

Navjot Singh
Navjot Singh
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Application SecurityAWSTechnology

Why compromised Jenkins can lead to a disaster?

I was recently searching for something on Google and came across this instance of what might be a logical vulnerability prevailing across multiple web applications. I was searching for publicly accessible Jenkins console through Google Dorking. My search query listed some of the websites that had Jenkins as a part of their domain name. Although this itself […]

Ankit Giri
Ankit Giri
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Application SecurityTechnology

An essence of Application Security in E-commerce

Hackers and cyber criminals identify E-commerce sites as a source of information, such as credit cards and other PII (Personally identifiable information). To protect customers, it’s necessary to know how to protect the application and the sensitive customer data it has. All this involves user’s trust and assurance on the brand and yes, it is at […]

Ankit Giri
Ankit Giri
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Application SecurityGrails

Spring Security & Grails: Cross domain authentication from HTTP to HTTPS

We were trying to implement SSL-based login and registration (i.e. HTTPS) in an e-commerce web application which was otherwise using the non-secure protocol (i.e. HTTP) for the entire website. Instead of moving the entire web application to SSL, which would have increased response times, we thought it would be best if only the authentication part […]