Secure Monitoring for Identity Federations and Distributed Systems

Generic user accounts are a traditional method used to test the behavior of complex applications and services. But their use tends to raise several security issues and considerations that must be addressed. When this kind of accounts are used inside the organization, system administrators can provide mechanisms to mitigate their impact on security, but when the accounts must be shared with external third-parties, they become more difficult to manage and security is usually forgotten in order to make things work.