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On today’s #dogWalkingThread, let’s talk about the recently disclosed abuse of SAML by attackers to “bypass” MFA.

For those not familiar with the concept, SAML allows the separation of identity providers (IDP) and service providers (SP). Why the separation? 1/
Suppose you want to access a service, and the service needs to authenticate you, but you really don’t want the service ever having your credentials (EVER). As long as the SP trusts the IDP, this is no problem. You authenticate with the IDP and the IDP tells the SP “trust them” 2/
Let’s consider passports as an analogue. I’ve traveled to many countries I wouldn’t want to have all my identity data, but the State Department serves as my identity provider. Because the country I’m entering trusts the US State Department, the passport is enough. 3/
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