For a long time, people have been logging into the apps they use via passwords or password managers. And many open standards and identity providers on the market continue to evolve how users authenticate and authorize with websites and applications. The issue is that the same problem exists for software services—when applications talk to applications, […]
SPIRE Now Runs on Windows!
At its heart, the SPIRE project aims to solve the problem of securely issuing workload identities at scale, no matter where the workload is running. It does that by having an extensible architecture composed of plugins that allow SPIRE to grow depending on the needs of supporting different platforms, cloud providers, etc. Until now, SPIRE […]
CNCF Elevates SPIFFE Spec to Secure App Services
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the open source Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) specification and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment (SPIRE) have become incubation-level hosted projects. Andrew Harding, SPIRE maintainer and a principal software engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), said the elevation of a […]