Microsoft highly recommends enabling MFA on all Entra ID users to protect their environment against potential attackers and avoid getting breached. This can cause a lot of issues and damage for the company from reputation problems to large fines.

The…

Your business depends on the protection of your most critical assets. Prioritizing Tier 0 assets and deploying a tiered administration model is a great way to strengthen the security protecting what matters most – your identities. We will discuss both…

Here are two scenarios I come across frequently, with customers of all sizes, in all industries, when discussing One Identity Active Roles:

1. “We have an IGA solution. It already manages our Active Directory just fine. Why do I need this?”

When it comes to securing Active Directory, the first place to start is usually getting a handle on what currently exists - getting a ‘lay of the land,’ so to speak. In Active Directory, the admincount attribute can play a role in identifying privileged…

Active Directory is often the backbone of organizational IT teams.  From provisioning users, devices and recording permissions for access to network resources, Active Directory serves to manage user roles and make it easier for IT teams to maintain organizational…

 
The Zero Trust model introduces a fundamental shift to an organization’s security strategy. From the outset, a Zero Trust model assumes that attackers will get in rather than solely focusing on keeping attackers at bay outside of a perimeter. Don’t get…

For enhanced password security, organizations need a simple, highly secure and efficient way for users to reset forgotten passwords and unlock accounts on their own. As an IT Leader, you must implement strong password policies and eliminate risk of data…

After working with Active Directory for longer than I care to confess, the term ‘Zero Trust’ has bubbled up just about everywhere I look. For years, I ignored it, mostly because it sounds too good to be true. I assumed – as with some industry buzzwords…

What’s all this talk about Active Directory being obsolete?

You may have heard rumblings that Microsoft Active Directory – lovingly acronymed as ‘AD’ – is “becoming obsolete and should be replaced”. You may have also heard that “you should reduce…

From onboarding new hires to quickly removing access of fired employees, tracking promotions, third-party access and an organization in constant flux, account lifecycle management can turn into a security nightmare for enterprises. High maturity – high…

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…

One Identity Hybrid Subscription

Recently, we have released a new version of One Identity Safeguard, Password Manager and Active Roles. Each of these releases now offers the One Identity Hybrid Subscription enabling you to ‘join’ your on-prem product…

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…

Many times companies use an initial password that is partially or completely static (Summer2017?), or sometimes they use a formula which includes partial data of the user such as the month of birth + the three final digits of their Social Security, etc…

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…

Exhibit A:  Teacher gave me an overview of my child’s theory on school.

My 5 year old started kindergarten at public school this week. It’s not a huge difference for her – she’s attended daycare, preschool, pre-k for the last few years.…

As if PCI, SOX, HIPAA, GLB, and all the other alphabet-soup regulations aren’t enough to bog down your security program, we now have a new one rearing its ugly head. The new regulation is the European Union General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR…

Air travel companies experience extreme seasonal loads, taking on thousands of short-term staff as business increases, then releasing them during the quieter autumn and winter months.  Dutch low-cost airline, Transavia, is no different.

Founded in 1965…

Active Directory management is a double-edged sword: it’s a big part of security and compliance in your organization, but it’s not the simplest of tasks.

First, native tools are not very powerful, especially when you’re managing a hybrid environment…

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…

Over the past couple of years Azure Active Directory and Office 365 have been quietly and steadily gaining ground within our businesses. While many administrators have been busy managing their environments, the level of effort involved in their daily…

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…