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The Death of the Local Account: Building a Sovereign Identity Layer with Defguard OIDC
One of the most persistent architectural failures in the self-hosted ecosystem is “identity sprawl.” When engineers first begin building out a private infrastructure stack, they inevitably stand up a dozen disparate services: a chat server, a file sync instance, an email relay, and a password manager. By default, every single one of these services maintains…
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Rethinking External Collaboration—Why We Say “No” to Guest Accounts
For years, enterprise IT departments have operated under a dangerous architectural myth: to collaborate with external clients, vendors, and contractors, you have to provision “Guest Accounts” inside your internal communication system. Whether it is Microsoft Teams adding a user to your identity directory or an IT admin manually setting up an external account in an…