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What Is IAM? Identity and Access Management Explained

What Is IAM? Identity and Access Management Explained

Identity and access management decides who gets in, what they can touch once inside, and how you prove later that the decision was right. Here is the whole picture in one page: the vocabulary, the standards, the parts that break, and where access is actually decided.
Israfil Coskun

August 2026

Runtime Protobuf Schemas in Keycloak's Embedded Infinispan

Runtime Protobuf Schemas in Keycloak's Embedded Infinispan

Keycloak offers no supported, configuration-only way to load runtime-mounted Protobuf schemas into its embedded Infinispan. This post walks through the extension pattern that bridges that gap through ProtoStream's documented initializer lifecycle, reviewed through a security and platform-engineering lens, with a runnable public demo.
Ali Tuğrul Pınar

July 2026

Inside Keycloak Authorization: Resources & Policy Engine

Inside Keycloak Authorization: Resources & Policy Engine

A deep dive into Keycloak Authorization Services: how Resource Servers, Resources, Scopes, Policies, and Permissions fit together, and exactly how Keycloak decides permit or deny.
Eren Kan

June 2026

Fine-Grained Authorization for AI Agents: How It Works in Production

Fine-Grained Authorization for AI Agents: How It Works in Production

How Keymate enforces fine-grained authorization for AI agents: declarative policies, a centralized engine, and consistent design-time/runtime enforcement.
Hüseyin Akdoğan

June 2026

Why AI Agents Need Fine-Grained Authorization

Why AI Agents Need Fine-Grained Authorization

Authentication tells us who the agent is. The harder question is what data it can reach, under what conditions, and on whose behalf. The April 2026 PocketOS incident, in which an autonomous coding agent deleted a production database in nine seconds, showed what happens when no one is answering it.
Hüseyin Akdoğan

May 2026

AI Agent Authorization: From Java Day Demo to Open Source Toolkit

AI Agent Authorization: From Java Day Demo to Open Source Toolkit

At Java Day Istanbul 2026, we asked one question: once an AI agent has a valid token, who decides what data it can reach? This post recaps what we showed on stage, what we open-sourced afterwards, and how the deeper blog series picks up the thread.
Hüseyin Akdoğan

May 2026