<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Ömer Mert Kaya</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/</link><description>Recent content on Ömer Mert Kaya</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 11:00:30 +0300</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Active Directory Attributes List</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/active-directory-attribute-list/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 11:00:30 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/active-directory-attribute-list/</guid><description>This page is a complete reference for Active Directory user attributes.</description></item><item><title>Hypervisor Type 1 vs Type 2</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/hypervisor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:00:13 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/hypervisor/</guid><description>When working with computer systems, we often have to manage more than one environment at once.</description></item><item><title>What Is SAML Authentication?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/saml-authentication/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:00:34 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/saml-authentication/</guid><description>SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a protocol that allows authentication information to be securely exchanged between systems.</description></item><item><title>Email Harvesting: A Cybersecurity Perspective and a Python Example</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/email-harvesting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:41:21 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/email-harvesting/</guid><description>Email harvesting is a technique frequently used by Red Team members during the reconnaissance phase of cybersecurity work.</description></item><item><title>IAM &amp; IAG &amp; IGA &amp; IDM: Concepts and Differences</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-iag-iga-idm-differences/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:00:00 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-iag-iga-idm-differences/</guid><description>Identity and Access Management products keep helping us today across a wide range of use cases.</description></item><item><title>Why Does Bug Bounty Culture Matter?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/bug-bounty-culture/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:00:41 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/bug-bounty-culture/</guid><description>Cybersecurity is a fundamental building block for a company&amp;rsquo;s success. Traditionally, having a cybersecurity team on its own doesn&amp;rsquo;t guarantee flawless outcomes.</description></item><item><title>What Is AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting)?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-aaa/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:57:49 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-aaa/</guid><description>In cybersecurity, we use a number of concepts to detect and structure problems.</description></item><item><title>What Is Access Certification?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/access-certification/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:33:05 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/access-certification/</guid><description>Identity and Access Management (IAM) plays a critical role in securing an organization&amp;rsquo;s IT infrastructure and sensitive data.</description></item><item><title>Understanding the Concept of Abstraction in Identity and Access Management</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/understanding-abstraction-in-iam/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:49:06 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/understanding-abstraction-in-iam/</guid><description>In our series on Identity and Access Management concepts, let&amp;rsquo;s take a look together at Abstraction.</description></item><item><title>What's Coming Next for Identity and Access Management Worldwide?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/future-of-identity-and-access-management/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:58:14 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/future-of-identity-and-access-management/</guid><description>The Future of IAM: The New Paradigm of Digital Security In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies are going through a radical transformation globally.</description></item><item><title>Virtual Assistants in Identity and Access Management</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/virtual-assistants-in-identity-and-access-management/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:31:03 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/virtual-assistants-in-identity-and-access-management/</guid><description>In Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, especially on the helpdesk side, we frequently get questions from our employees.</description></item><item><title>Blocking RDP Port 3389 in an Active Directory Domain</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/blocking-rdp-port-3389/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:41:01 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/blocking-rdp-port-3389/</guid><description>Today, most medium and large companies use Active Directory to centrally manage their users and computers.</description></item><item><title>What Is Auth0? Connecting Active Directory to Auth0 and Logging into a Web Application</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/auth0-active-directory-connection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:53:07 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/auth0-active-directory-connection/</guid><description>What Is Auth0? Auth0, a product from Okta, is a platform that provides Identity and Access Management solutions.</description></item><item><title>What Is Active Directory LDAP Authorization? How Do You Implement Authorization in a Web Application With LDAP?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/ldap-authorization/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:41:05 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/ldap-authorization/</guid><description>Many organizations, both in our country and around the world, use centralized identity management systems like Active Directory (AD) for user authentication and authorization.</description></item><item><title>What Is Active Directory LDAP Authentication? How Do You Sign In With LDAP?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/ldap-authentication/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/ldap-authentication/</guid><description>Today, login screens are critical to application security. In older applications, user credentials and passwords were typically stored in the application&amp;rsquo;s own database.</description></item><item><title>Sending Messages to All Devices in Active Directory</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/sending-messages-to-all-devices-in-active-directory/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:45:02 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/sending-messages-to-all-devices-in-active-directory/</guid><description>In our companies, we generally use Active Directory to centrally manage our users&amp;rsquo; devices.</description></item><item><title>Strong Password Storage Policies</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/strong-password-storage-policies/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:30:36 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/strong-password-storage-policies/</guid><description>There are many ways to protect passwords from attackers. In this post, we&amp;rsquo;ll go over those methods.</description></item><item><title>The Review Process for Role and Entitlement Owners</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/role-and-entitlement-owner-review-process/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:30:49 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/role-and-entitlement-owner-review-process/</guid><description>One of the most important components of Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems is the regular review of user entitlements.</description></item><item><title>Managing Multiple LDAP Connections From a Single Application</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/managing-multiple-ldap-connections/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:55:50 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/managing-multiple-ldap-connections/</guid><description>In Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, we work in connection with many downstream applications.</description></item><item><title>Identity and Access Management - Access Request Management</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-access-request-management/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:28:23 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-access-request-management/</guid><description>Access request management refers to the process by which employees, or business partners who have access to our systems, request permissions in the applications we manage with IAM.</description></item><item><title>Identity and Access Management Controls: A Look Through the Lens of the Presidency's Information Security Guide</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/identity-and-access-management-information-security-guide/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:31:21 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/identity-and-access-management-information-security-guide/</guid><description>Identity and Access Management (IDM/IAM) has become the standardized foundation that allows the right people to access the right resources, at the right time, for the right reasons.</description></item><item><title>Reporting the Access Review Process (Dashboard)</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/access-review-reporting-dashboard/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:25:18 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/access-review-reporting-dashboard/</guid><description>Access review processes are one of the most important components for strengthening the security of Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.</description></item><item><title>Access and Entitlement Review in Identity and Access Management</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/role-permission-review/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/role-permission-review/</guid><description>In Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, the access review process is the general term for the work carried out to audit access.</description></item><item><title>What Is Role Mining? Building Effective Role Structures in IAM Systems</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-role-mining/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:00:41 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-role-mining/</guid><description>Role mining is a process found within Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.</description></item><item><title>Using IBM Security Verify: SAML Authentication</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/ibm-security-verify-saml-usage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:45:08 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/ibm-security-verify-saml-usage/</guid><description>Hi everyone,
In this post, we&amp;rsquo;ll walk through a SAML sign-in scenario using the trial version of the cloud-based IBM Security Verify.</description></item><item><title>The Importance of Stakeholder Engagement for IAM Success in Your Company</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-success/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:53:09 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-success/</guid><description>The success of Identity and Access Management (IAM) depends on many factors, and one of the most important is the value of stakeholder engagement.</description></item><item><title>Authentication vs Authorization Concepts</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/authentication-vs-authorization/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 22:30:46 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/authentication-vs-authorization/</guid><description>Authentication and Authorization are two distinct, important concepts.
Authentication (AuthN) Authentication answers the question &amp;ldquo;Who are you?</description></item><item><title>An Identity and Access Management (IAM) Dashboard Example - Metrics</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-dashboard-metrics-example/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/iam-dashboard-metrics-example/</guid><description>With the integrations we build in Identity and Access Management (IAM), we automate a great many processes and operations.</description></item><item><title>What Is User Provisioning?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-user-provisioning/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-user-provisioning/</guid><description>One of the most fundamental, and perhaps most important, responsibilities of Identity and Access Management (IAM) products is user provisioning.</description></item><item><title>What Is Entitlement?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-entitlement/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 21:45:54 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/what-is-entitlement/</guid><description>Entitlement is one of the concepts we use most in Identity and Access Management (IAM) products.</description></item><item><title>Beyond Passwords: The FIDO Solution</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/beyond-passwords-fido-solution/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:17:41 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/beyond-passwords-fido-solution/</guid><description>Fancy Cracking FIDO&amp;rsquo;s Secrets? FIDO stands for Fast Identity Online Authentication.</description></item><item><title>What Is Clerk Authentication?</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/clerk-authentication/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:57:45 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/posts/clerk-authentication/</guid><description>With the Clerk Authentication service, we can manage authentication very quickly.</description></item><item><title>About</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/about/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/about/</guid><description>Ömer Mert Kaya is an Identity &amp;amp; Access Management Engineer specializing in IAM, IGA, IDM, PAM, authentication and authorization.</description></item><item><title>Resume</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/resume/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/resume/</guid><description>Click here to download the PDF resume.
Ömer Mert KAYA omermertkaya@hotmail.</description></item><item><title>Posts Archive</title><link>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/archives/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://omermertkaya.github.io/en/archives/</guid><description>This page contains an archive of all posts.</description></item></channel></rss>