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Deploying Identity and Access Management with Free Open Source Software

Deploying Identity and Access Management with Free Open Source Software

A recipe to build an enterprise-class IAM service using free open source software.

2018

Maciej Machulak, et al.

Maciej Machulak, Michael Schwartz

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No — Your MCP Gateway Isn’t Going to Solve Agentic Identity or Security

Throw a rock at Identiverse or Gartner IAM, and you might hit 10 vendors with an MCP gateway they claim will govern agent behavior. It’s…

Jan 30

No — Your MCP Gateway Isn’t Going to Solve Agentic Identity or Security

Jan 30

Governing The Infinite Forbidden

For humans, good judgment seems effortless — not because we compile explicit lists of forbidden behavior, but because we carry a lifetime…

Jan 8

Governing The Infinite Forbidden

Jan 8

Finally… Someone is Reading Your Docs!

“RFM” is shorthand for “of course you didn’t read the docs”. So it’s understandable why for open source software infrastructure developers…

Dec 29, 2025

Finally… Someone is Reading Your Docs!

Dec 29, 2025

Enterprise Security needs Brains, Body, Eyes, and Muscles

GovOps defines four control planes:

Dec 19, 2025

Enterprise Security needs Brains, Body, Eyes, and Muscles

Dec 19, 2025

GovOps upgrades Access Certification to Access Review

Access review and access certification are not interchangeable. As organizations move toward GovOps — continuous, policy-driven governance…

Dec 15, 2025

GovOps upgrades Access Certification to Access Review

Dec 15, 2025

Risk, Transparency, and Accountability: The Core Metrics of GovOps

GovOps needs operational metrics which allow the business to evaluate its effectiveness. Risk, transparency, and accountability are the…

Dec 6, 2025

Risk, Transparency, and Accountability: The Core Metrics of GovOps

Dec 6, 2025

No, your proxy does not deliver “Zero Trust”

“All traffic goes through our MCP / ZTNA proxy. It validates identity and enforces policy. Therefore, we have Zero Trust.”

Dec 5, 2025

No, your proxy does not deliver “Zero Trust”

Dec 5, 2025

GovOps Manifesto

For more than a decade, enterprises have relied on governance models rooted in a slower, more predictable era. Identity Governance &…

Dec 5, 2025

GovOps Manifesto

Dec 5, 2025

Introducing GovOps

Why Governance Needs an Operational Model

Nov 26, 2025

Introducing GovOps

Nov 26, 2025

Trust Governance Architecture

How Formal Verification and Token Integrity Are Transforming Enterprise Security

Oct 15, 2025

Trust Governance Architecture

Oct 15, 2025

Mike Schwartz

Mike Schwartz

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Founder of Gluu and host the “Identerati Office Hours” Livestream twice a week! Mike resides in Austin TX with family and pigeons.

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