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Recently, one of our customers reported what looked like a Severity 4 issue. Most teams would log, schedule, and resolve it in due course. But at Midships, we saw something more significant. Our engineers recognized that, if left unchecked, this issue could escalate to a Severity 1 . Such an escalation can bring systems down or disrupt business-critical services. Instead of waiting for that to happen, we acted immediately. Acting Before the Problem Escalates We spun up our I

What are Passkeys? Passkeys are a modern, passwordless authentication mechanism based on FIDO2 and WebAuthn standards. They allow users to securely sign in using cryptographic keys instead of traditional passwords. Unlike passwords, which are static and shareable secrets, passkeys utilize asymmetric encryption —a public-private key pair . The private key is securely stored on the user’s device and never leaves it. What sets passkeys apart from standard WebAuthn credentials

What it is: WebAuthn (Web Authentication) is a modern web standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance that enables passwordless , phishing-resistant , and public key cryptography-based user authentication on the web. It is a core component of the FIDO2 framework, alongside CTAP (Client to Authenticator Protocol) . WebAuthn allows browsers and applications to register and authenticate users using a cryptographic key pair stored in a secur

What is it: LDAP/AD Federation is the process of integrating enterprise directory services — such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories or Microsoft Active Directory (AD) — with external applications or Identity Providers (IdPs) to enable secure and seamless authentication without duplicating user data. LDAP is a protocol standard for querying and modifying directory services over TCP/IP, while AD is a proprietary Microsoft directory service that impl

Keycloak is a robust, open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. Enterprises value it for standards compliance, cost advantages, and flexibility. However, running Keycloak at scale with high availability, predictable upgrades, and enterprise-grade user journeys requires more than the default distribution. Midships bridges that gap with our Keycloak Accelerator , which delivers: Zero-downtime deployment and operations Autoscaling and high-availability cluste