The ubiquitous use of Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD in 95 percent of the global Fortune 1000 companies make it the primary target of cyberattacks. Now, as more and more organizations integrate their Privileged Access Management (PAM) into…
With Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) in 95 percent of Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, the hybrid AD environment is a huge target for cyberattacks. It’s a challenge to manage and secure AD/AAD account lifecycle management…
As most companies and organizations adjusted to the abrupt change, I must admit that I missed some of the challenges they were facing. Our company, One Identity – which is a Quest Software business, was probably more prepared than most since a good portion…
This current global health crisis has created chaos and hardship for individuals, families, companies and governments. With events canceled or postponed, offices closed and personal routines put on hold, life as we previously knew it, quickly changed…
As you know, recent events forced nearly every organization in the world to quickly adjust the status of its workforce. Whether it was to transition office-based workers to remote access, to temporarily furlough employees with the intent to bring them…
Hannah Montana was right: you can have the best of both worlds. Though the late 2000s teen queen was singing about her secret double life as a high-flying pop star and a down-to-earth high school student, it turns out that that life goal now also applies…
Which introductory experience do new hires to your organization get? Are they able to login on their first day and access all necessary resources to do their basic job? Or… are they temporarily assigned a left-over cubicle with no phone, computer or network…
You already know the amazing capabilities of One Identity Active Roles and how it simplifies and centralizes provisioning and deprovisioning processes for your Active Directory and Azure Active Directory-controlled identities. You know that it provides…
Upgrade from Identity Manager 6.x - Synchronization
Welcome to the first installment of our Upgrade to Awesome blog series, in it we'll take a look at the performance boost in version 7 connectors. This is important to understand as we prepare for the…
Here at One Identity, we like to highlight organizations that figure it out and finally get IAM right. There are so many that struggle to achieve the security, automation, and transformation that IAM can deliver, that when someone pulls it off, we like…
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.…
Using the single, familiar Active Roles interface, there is no longer a need to be constantly switching between consoles, and writing complex scripts in an attempt to automate, because Active Roles does it for you.
Creation of a user, for example, can…
With version 7.1, the One Identity Active Roles solution has expanded its scope to cover both on-prem AD (as its always done) and Azure AD. Here’s an explanation of how it works.
The ADSI provider serves as the interface between the Active Roles…
Organizations are sprinting to Office 365. In fact, users will have to convert by Oct. 13, 2020 as support for Office 2020 ceases that day. By then, many organizations will be 100-percent cloud, but most are so heavily invested in legacy infrastructure…
The cloud isn’t coming — it’s here. And the quicker we all get on board, the better off we’ll be, right?!
Digital transformation, IT modernization projects and cost-control initiatives all point to the cloud as the easiest, most…
A little while back I was reviewing anecdotal stories from some of our One Identity solutions customers. I found an alarming theme across a number of them. Alright it was alarming for these customers but encouraging for me and the IAM solutions I represent…
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…
As companies grow by acquisition and expand internationally, one of the natural by-products is a large and complex IT infrastructure.
Such was the case with Telefónica España and its multi-domain use of Active Directory (AD). Telefónica España, one of…
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…
