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Plain-English, opinionated breakdowns of the concepts and comparisons practitioners search for, with a verdict.
What Is CIAM (and How It Differs from IAM)
CIAM · intro · 7 minCIAM is customer identity: registration, consent, and login built for the people who buy from you, not the people who work for you. Here is how it differs from workforce IAM and when you need it.
OAuth 2.0 vs OIDC vs SAML
Identity · intro · 8 minOAuth 2.0 is authorization, OIDC adds authentication, and SAML is enterprise federation. Here is what each actually does, the token types, and a decision table for when to use which.
RBAC vs ABAC vs ReBAC vs PBAC
IAM · practitioner · 9 minThe four authorization models compared: RBAC (role), ABAC (attributes), ReBAC (relationship), PBAC (policy). What each is, where each breaks, and a decision table for choosing.
What Is GEO (and How It Differs from SEO/AEO)
GEO/AEO · intro · 7 minGEO is optimizing to be the source AI answers cite, not to rank in a list of links. Here is how it differs from SEO and AEO, why citation share is the metric, and what a GEO program involves.