Enable Fingerprint login on Windows 10


It took me some time to get this one work, here are a couple of gotchas I learned. If the Fingerprint option is greyed out with a note '*Some settings are hidden or managed by your organization'. The fix is to update the registry key - [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "AllowDomainPINLogon"=dword:00000001  If the fingerprint sensor is not responding during … Continue reading Enable Fingerprint login on Windows 10

SAML-Based Federation for AWS Access


I am currently working on a Cloud migragion project. The goal is to move the on-premise applications (mostly are Atlassian tools) to AWS. And we need to build everything from scratch. I take it as a good opportunity to refresh what I learned in the past a few years, and also implement the best practices … Continue reading SAML-Based Federation for AWS Access

Certificate Transparency


Starting April 28, 2018,  AWS will start to support Certificate Transparency. I am new to this, here are somethings that I learned so far. What exactly is certificate transparency? Certificate Transparency framework is a project that is initially launched by Google. What problems does certificate transparency solve? It is designed to solved some flaws in the … Continue reading Certificate Transparency