My earlier blog post ’The yellow box’ was about using AD FS as IDP and KEMP as SAML Service Provider. In that particular blog I covered how KEMP was doing Pre-authentication, and then KCD to the back-end – It was quite comprehensive scenario, and didn’t feel I need to cover more ground on KEMP’s SAML capabilities until now.

Following the previous blog on the topic, information about the attacks that were dubbed EFAIL just came out. The attack has several variants which exploit both issues in specific clients as well as issues with the standards themselves.

Every year we see predictions that e-mail is finally going away and being replaced by some different form of communication media – instant messaging systems like Skype, chat forum applications like Slack and so forth. Yet, year after year e-mail is still here. Majority of communications, especially those between companies, are still carried out through the good old e-mail that has been with us since the 70’s. Even outside of the business context, e-mail is still going strong.