The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass reports provide detailed, independent reviews of the markets and key products for both the Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Access Governance (AG) market segments. One Identity is one of the only vendors to be…
Fraud is a multi-faceted threat that is of growing concern for all businesses today.
Companies in the insurance industry are more at risk than most, given the fact they handle masses of highly sensitive financial data. In light of this, Natixis Assurances…
We’ve all been there – you’ve been doing something the same way for years and it seems to be going well. You’re in a groove and everything happens like clockwork. You know exactly what you’re doing and the results are predictable. You’re a well-oiled…
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.…
Recently I was asked if Quest One Identity Manager supported the ability to define policy violations within and across applications, resources and target systems and by luck I came across a good explanation by a colleague which I decide to add a couple…
If you've been following Jackson Shaw's blog (which by the way, we actually syndicate his latest 5 posts at the bottom of our main blog overview page), you'll have noticed that he recently wrote about a couple videos that Solution Architect Barry…
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…
Reading the ZDNet piece “Killing Security Through Obscurity to Defeat Competitors”, I couldn’t help thinking that the missing piece was user friendly IAM. When you want to make security less obscure, what you’re really doing is making the rules…
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…
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…
In terms of finding online deals, Cyber Monday is the one day of the year on which a savvy shopper can get the majority of their holiday shopping done before they even break for lunch! In the business world, management would likely expect lower productivity…
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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…
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,…
May has arrived - the tulips are in bloom and Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is out! The DBIR is a staple among security professionals as a recognized report to get a sense of how things are going. So how are things these…
In one of my favorite “The Lord of the Rings” movie moments, Gimli (the dwarf played hilariously by John Rhys-Davies) explains to Eowyn (the female warrior played by Miranda Otto) that since few people outside their homelands see dwarf women, there’s…
Working Together to Improve Public Safety
"The ability to quickly update and share data is a huge factor in enabling us to do our jobs better. Ultimately, it allows us to more effectively serve and protect the public.”
Christopher J. Creech…
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…
The myth you will hear in the hallways of IAM conferences: Unstructured data is so different that application data or user groups that you need a unique solution to tackle governance and access management.
Unstructured data, all those files in folders…
Most discussions about SSO are put in terms of the user. It’s the user that wants it in these stories, the user that forces it to happen, and the user that benefits. That’s all true to some extent. But there is another clear beneficiary to SSO. That’s…
We all get busy around the holidays in both our personal and professional lives.
But the new year is approaching fast and it is more important than ever to make sure you have control over what users have access to.
In the whitepaper "Access Control…
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 two questions I hear most when I talk to customers preparing to embark on an identity and access management project are:
So, today I’ll discuss what I believe…
We are pleased to announce that the Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, recognized our Identity and Access Management solution in the 2014 Global Excellence Awards at RSA 2014. In the…
I wrote an article that appeared in VentureBeat In this article I compared the principles of privileged account management to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs that we all know and love from Psychology 101. In a nut shell, I proposed that it was time that the…
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…
