I am proud to share that the UNITE Partner and User Conference in Phoenix was an incredible success. I am also proud to share our innovative and loyal partners who were recognized for their hard work and focus on ensuring successful outcomes for their…

Primitive practices leave organizations’ critical assets vulnerable to attacks                                                                 

Too often, organizations take an approach to protecting their critical assets, such as customer data and intellectual property, that…

I’m here at the Kuppingercole EIC17 conference and it’s Day 1. As always there’s that mix of first day of school after summer holidays and “new kids on the block” for those who attend the conference for the very first time.…

Strong cryptography improves the security of systems and the information they process. IT users also enjoy the enhanced availability in the marketplace of secure applications through cryptography.

In July 1995, NIST and the Communications Security Establishment…

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…

“I forgot my password!”

“Can you help me access this application from my laptop when I’m on the road?”

“I just bought this new application for our department and I DO NOT want to add another password to my people’s lives…

New IAM e-book offers real-world examples, of real-world organizations, solving real-world problems, and getting it right…finally

I talk to a lot of people about identity and access management (IAM) and one common theme I see across all of them…

As a kid I always loved having my mom read me books by Dr. Suess, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket and The Sneetches being a few of my favorites. Now that I have children, I realize what challenging these books can be to read aloud. But if you can get through…

What a year it has been, thanks to you, our partners. Since becoming an independent brand, One Identity has seen incredible growth in our Partner Circle Program. That growth is not just in the volume of sales (always important) by partner members – a…

As this is my first blog post at One Identity, I’d like to say thank you for the warm welcome from all the partners, customers and internal colleagues who have reached out since I took on my new role as director of channel and alliances for North America…

When we think of privileged or shared accounts, Facebook and Twitter don’t typically come to mind. However, as several organizations in the entertainment industry learned last week, those accounts are very much at risk and when compromised can be detrimental…

It should come as no surprise that the police in Minnesota have those in car computers for looking up people they are dealing with. It should also be mo surprise that they can pull up an electronic version of your driver's license there. That electronic…

That's right according the 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon, 95% of malware infections were installed by a remote hacker after they gained system access. And what was one of the top recommendations for remediation? They highly encouraged…

It’s been said that “efficiency is about doing things right and effectiveness is about doing the right things” (Drucker). The management team of any business is always riding this fine line in an attempt to spend wisely to maximize…

Recently our own Paul Christman, President & CEO of Quest’s Public Sector Group published an article to USA Today. In the article, Paul discusses the challenges that the US federal government faces on a daily basis with regard to cyber-attacks…

The myth du jour: When the auditors are heading your way, Darth Vader’s march music should accompany them as they make their way down the halls.

Audits are scary. If you're not prepared, there are obvious reasons to be afraid. (Or is it that there…

I thought I would take this opportunity during one of my favorite holidays of the year, Halloween, to discuss the top ten tricks and treats you might encounter this year.

10) – I pulled this description from the Kit Kat website. Every corner, every…

This is one of my favorite times of year as a “professional” in the security market. Because each year we get a really nice present form Verizon and no it’s not a new phone. It’s the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report where…

Colt technology Services provides IT services to several of Europe’s largest banks and insurance companies. To improve security and ensure compliance Colt needed an identity and access management solution that streamlined provisioning and governance of…

Part 1:  Discovering Your Superman

What is a privileged user?  It should be a simple question to answer — the two words give you a big hint as to where the definition should end up. It’s a user, and, quite obviously, this user has one or several privileges…

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Health Care Compliance Association’s (HCCA) 19^th annual compliance institute conference. There were a number of very interesting speakers including the Senior Advisor for HIPAA Compliance and Enforcement…

If you have a smartphone, a teenager or both, then acronyms like OMG (oh my gosh), OMW (on my way) and AFAIK (as far as I know) are probably pretty familiar to you. However, the last one – LoProCo - probably belongs more in a list with HIPAA than BTW…

The lesser of two evils principle as defined by one of my favorite resources Wikipedia is the principle that when given two bad choices, the one which is not as bad as the other should be chosen over the one that is the greater threat. But that might be…

I’ve been working in the privileged account management space for years, including a continuous line from Vintela, where we pioneered the Active Directory bridge space; through Quest Software, where we built the industry’s most comprehensive PAM offering;…