Last week, from December 5th-9th, myself and Slavek Licehammer, Evolveum’s Engineer and Global Leader for Academia, attended the Technology Exchange conference organized by Internet2 in Denver, CO. I was appropriately tagged a “first time attendee” so in case I was found aimlessly wandering around the hotel premises, Internet2 staff would be quick to point me Read more about Evolveum at TechEx 2022 in Denver, CO[…]
We have recently published source code of midPoint book on GitHub: https://github.com/Evolveum/midpoint-book Please note that, unlike midPoint, the book is not open source. The finished book is published under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND). However, this license does not apply to book’s source code. No explicit license is granted Read more about MidPoint Book Source Code Is Published on GitHub[…]
There is yet another far-reaching vulnerability that shook the IT world. This time, the affected component is OpenSSL. As midPoint does not use OpenSSL, it is not affected by the vulnerability directly. However, there may be some cases when action might be required.
As the creator and maintainer of midPoint, the leading open-source identity governance, and administration platform, Evolveum has felt close to the higher education vertical since its beginning. It’s not only midPoint’s feature set, a considerable amount of connectors, and tailor-made subscription models that meet the higher education organizations’ needs. It’s also the approach aimed at Read more about Internet2 Membership and InCommon Catalysts Participation Propels Evolveum’s Engagement with Higher Education Community[…]
The midPoint book Practical Identity Management with MidPoint was just updated. It has been updated to match with the midPoint 4.4 LTS release. There is also a comprehensive glossary of IAM terms. All the text, examples and pictures in the book were reviewed and updated to match midPoint 4.4. There have been significant improvements in Read more about MidPoint Book 2.2[…]
We interrupt your usual programming (again) to bring you this breaking news (again) about a dangerous and far-reaching vulnerability. This time it is CVE-2022-22965, a.k.a. “Spring4Shell”, a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Spring framework. Similarly to Log4Shell, midPoint is not vulnerable to Spring4Shell attack. However, there are some actions that you may need or want to take. […]
We interrupt your usual programming to bring you this breaking news about CVE-2021-44228, a.k.a “Log4Shell” vulnerability.
However, there is not much to talk about. MidPoint is not vulnerable to this attack, as midPoint is not using the Log4j logging implementation.
Despite that, there are some thoughts that we would like to share concerning this dangerous and far-reaching vulnerability. […]
Ten years ago, a small team with a courageous vision, right skills and motivation came together to start an open source project. Right on this day, such effort was followed by establishing an open source company with a resonant name: Evolveum. Being on our own and starting from the bottom, we have experienced good times Read more about It’s Evolveum’s 10th Birthday[…]
Back in early 2010s we had a product, we had a brand new company and we were dressed for success. Yet, the success was not exactly waiting for us in the early years. We are quite successful now, but it was harder and it took longer than we have originally anticipated. […]
We were starting up a new company in 2011. We had with very little money and limited business experience. However, we had a good team, a vision and a code. The experts would say that starting up a company based on engineering, with no sales, no marketing and no rich investors equals a suicide. Yet, a decade later, we are still here, more successful than ever. We have built up a sustainable business based on open source. […]