We all have Active Directory (AD) and it is so ingrained into our day-to-day lives that most of our end users don’t even know it’s there until it goes down. But when it does go down, you’d better run for the hills…

“I can’t get…

If you’ve been following the IAM blog, you know that we kind of have a thing for Active Directory (AD)…but then who doesn’t? AD is everywhere, everyone has it, it is critical to most organizations’ operations, and messing up when it comes to AD can have…

Ok, let me paint the scene for you:  so let’s say you’re one of 2 or 3 folks on a small IT team whose job it is to make sure the entire company is humming along smoothly (I know. I know.  Stay with me here…)  You think your teammates…

The challenges of identity and access management (IAM) – namely ensuring that the right people, have the right access, to the rights systems, in all the right ways – is difficult in most organizations, but even more so in local governments. With a wide…

Let’s face it: your users have too many passwords. That means that your IT team is managing too many identities for each user: one for your SAP system, one for your e-mail software, one for Linux-based applications, and one for Active Directory. Quest…

Years ago, when I was much younger, skinnier, and tougher, I was a pretty good runner. In fact for a couple of years I was the fastest female marathon runner in the state of Utah (we won’t mention the fact that I’m a guy, and couldn’t get close to the…

The whole point of identity and access management (IAM) is to ensure that the right people have the right access to the right stuff at the right time in the right way and that all the other right people say that it’s okay that they have that access.…

Let’s talk directories for a minute. In identity and access management (IAM) it all starts with the directory – after all, you need someplace to set up the account and hold authorizations and you need something to authenticate against. Everything that…

We all have Active Directory (AD), and love it or hate it, we cannot survive without it. Nothing brings IT to a grinding halt faster than an inability of users to logon to the critical systems accessed through AD. When people can’t get to Exchange, or…

Ask anyone that’s not an identity and access management expert to define IAM, and I’ll bet the majority of the time they’ll describe single sign-on (SSO). It’s the easiest to understand, most visible and perhaps highest impact area of IAM – at least…

Active Directory holds such a prominent position in the enterprise, that inadequate management and security of this universally accepted directory can be a major barrier to IAM success. For all its goodness, AD is woefully lacking in native management…

I spend way too much of my time thinking about identity and access management (IAM). I guess it’s what pays the bills, so that’s a good thing. I get paid to write about, talk about, and evangelize the One Identity way of doing IAM.

I’ve written…

As I get engaged in projects to deploy our unstructured data governance solution, the most common push back the technologists get from their internal line of business data owners is, “we don’t want to be the ‘data police’.” That is, the business doesn…

The myth in the studio with us today: Cloud based SaaS apps are going to break all your security and provisioning protections.

Change is the world’s only constant. Just when you have all the IT systems set up just so, along comes this SaaS thing to knock…

Challenges

• • Protect critical Active Directory data by strictly enforcing policies and eliminating unregulated access to resources
  • Save time and reduce errors by providing automated user and group management
  • Tighten the security of Active Directory by…

An old myth accepted as fact: Active Directory is something between a huge burden or a neat toy, but it isn't up to the job for meeting my big directory and identity needs.

It’s hard to count the number of times I've sat in meetings with very smart…

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• Johnson Matthey accelerates consolidation of 10,000 users and 27 forests into a single Active Directory forest with Migration Manager for Active Directory
• ActiveRoles Server provides secure, automated user and group management for the new consolidated…

It’s well-known that most employees have a dozen or more different accounts inside a big company. For example there is your Active Directory account, your Oracle expense account, SalesForce accounts, and so on and on. And those same employees,…

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Integrating AD with your cloud services for authentication is obviously critical for users, IT, management and infosec stake holders. But authentication and account management is only one…

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Good access governance requires you to catalog your resources, identify the best person to decide who should have access to each resource, and automate the approval and periodic…

Quest One Identity Solutions from Quest Software, now part of Dell, set the standard for AD-based security and management, while expanding that strategy enterprise-wide. In most organizations, Active Directory (AD) is one of the largest and most important…

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That really says it. There’s a lot more to why and how which we’ll cover in the webinar but at the end good access control comes down to avoiding the use of local groups whether on Windows file servers, in SQL…

Active Directory is now, Simple and Secure

With the release of ActiveRoles Server 6.8, you can solve your security issues and meet those never-ending compliance requirements by securing Active Directory.

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• Automated workflow – Automates…

Peter Stephensen of SC Magazine has recently reviewed our flagship products as part of an ongoing evaluation. Peter went through the installations of both products from scratch and configured them both.

Something to note is that the testing included…