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4 Identity Management Articles You May Have Missed

Leave a Comment / ALL, Cybersecurity, IAM, IDM / By Hanno Ekdahl

Every two weeks we deliver a curated digest of Identity Management and Cybersecurity News to security leaders, IT professionals, and CISO/CSOs. Based on subscriber feedback, we’ve selected the most popular articles to highlight here. BitLocker encryption can be defeated with trivial Windows authentication bypass In its own documentation, Microsoft admits that preboot authentication is “unacceptable […]

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How a Solution Roadmap Aligns IT and Business Strategy

Leave a Comment / ALL, IAM, IDM, Process / By Hanno Ekdahl

The challenge to successfully implement IT solutions that deliver their expected value to the organization is ongoing. According to an IBM study, only 40% of IT projects meet schedule, budget and quality goals. The root cause of this issue, according to the Project Management Institute, is a lack of alignment between the project and the

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9 Cyber Security Questions Every Executive Should Ask

Leave a Comment / ALL, Cybersecurity, Identity, Security / By Hanno Ekdahl

According to 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime, recently released by The Ponemon Institute, the minimum cost of cyber crime to a company was $1.9M while the maximum cost was as much as $65M. As news of major cyber attacks becomes an almost weekly occurrence, organizations are still struggling to define a security model and determine how

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10 Challenges IAM Governance Teams Help Organizations Overcome

Leave a Comment / ALL, Governance, IAM, IDM / By Hanno Ekdahl

The best Identity Management (IAM) practitioners are businesses that have adopted a formal governance structure with defined processes and practices that deliver value. Governance frameworks are necessary to deliver on the promise of IAM to support business users’ access needs consistently without compromising security or causing a compliance breach. The big pivot here is that Identity Management

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3 Must-Take Steps to Getting User Data Right

Leave a Comment / ALL, Data Quality / By Hanno Ekdahl

Maintaining data quality is the single most important principle of a functioning Identity Management solution. In fact, realizing the benefits of automated user provisioning and access management processes depends on it. Unfortunately, there is a huge performance penalty for getting the data wrong that users will not accept – putting your IAM program at risk

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10 Tips to Avoid an Identity Management Disaster

Leave a Comment / ALL, IAM, IDM / By Hanno Ekdahl

More than half of all IDM projects fail the first time, yet all too often companies quickly select a technology and begin implementation. A newly inked contract may help ease the immediate pressure to get something done, but a failed project doesn’t make good financial sense and could mean you’ll have to make some undesirable

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Core Identity & Access Management Use Cases

Leave a Comment / ALL, IAM, Identity, IDM, Process, Provisioning / By Hanno Ekdahl

Here is a reference list of common Identity & Access Management Use Cases: Create User Initial Population of Users in ID Store (Data seeding for existing users) New Employee through automated HR feed New Non-Employee – Internal (HR feed, workflow request, application of record) New Non-Employee – External (workflow request, application of record) New Employee

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Takeaways from the 2015 Cybersecurity Forum in Atlanta

Leave a Comment / ALL, Cybersecurity, Security / By Hanno Ekdahl

Here are some cool takeaways from the Cybersecurity Forum with Israel and the American South hosted by Baker Donelson at Georgia Tech. The conference was broad in scope and addressed a wide range of issues in Cybersecurity across people, process, and technology. Here are some of the most impactful sound bites from the forum: Today,

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Part 2: Defining Roles for IAM – From the Bottom Up

Leave a Comment / ALL, IAM, Identity, Roles Based Access Control (RBAC), Security / By Hanno Ekdahl

We believe that a two-pronged approach to roles definition is the key to implementing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) successfully. While there are tools that can automate the ‘bottom up’ approach, the old adage “Garbage In, Garbage Out” applies. If the data that you are basing your role definition on are bad, then a bottom

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Defining Roles: The Top-Down Process in Practice

Leave a Comment / ALL, Data Quality, IAM, Roles Based Access Control (RBAC), Security / By Hanno Ekdahl

Our path to well-defined roles begins with the system owner who evaluates the applications and which users should have access. When he determines that a group does not belong, for example, the accounting folks should not be on a particular application or system, he removes them…All of them. This first pass eliminates users who should

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