As the global pandemic prompted organizations worldwide to implement huge work-from-home programs, we reached out to offer help with securing the newly created remote-access channels with multifactor authentication (MFA) through our Defender product.…
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…
The modern business world doesn’t go around without them: contractors, outsourced service providers and partners. Collectively known as third parties, they can be outside developers, business consultants, freelancers or partners who must connect to your…
It's October, so it's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! And one of the main themes for this year's edition is multi-factor authentication: login protection by using more authentication factors than just the password. The second factor could be a…
The IT department of Radboud University (the Netherlands) manages 40,000 to 50,000 identities. With around 25,000, the school also has an academic hospital, with faculty and staff, along with researchers from all over the world, not to mention invited…
Diagnostic medicine can be defined as the bridge that connects the research and development of diagnostic tests to their application in medical practice. DASA is the largest provider of diagnostic medical services in Latin America, and the fourth largest…
It seems that single sign-on (SSO) has once again emerged as all the rage in identity and access management (IAM). Over the past few years solutions that address the SSO needs of the quickly growing cloud and SaaS application mix have pushed to the front…
AKA yes men are everyone’s friend
Security doesn’t have to be the historical world of saying “no” all the time and can actually become a business-enabler to empower people and achieve business obejctives. A lot easier said than done you might reply…
Single sign-on (SSO) is like the holy grail of identity and access management (IAM). When Microsoft built SSO into the operating system with Active Directory and Windows XP, we all rejoiced. But that rejoicing was short-lived. Sure AD made logging onto…
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…
If you’ve been following One Identity in the identity and access management (IAM) market, you know that we engage with a number of analyst firms to validate our strategy, assess our market position, and socialize those areas where we feel the One…
Earth-shattering mega-trend, or flash in the pan?…you be the judge
We’ve all heard about the inevitable digital transformation. In fact, many of us already have digital transformation initiatives. But what is digital transformation and is it really…
Read more about how the City of Bakersfield handles the increased use of mobile devices by the city’s police department and other field personnel.
Recently, I spent a few great days at Gartner Security Summit 2016. At security events like this,…
I spend my days working with and for Federal Government agencies helping solve identity management challenges. Always (now) with an eye toward security, I feel their pain in balancing the functionality needs of their enterprises with the security that…
In recent years, Malta has been a setting for many movies and TV series – the landscape and scenery providing a superb back-drop for many tales. One recent TV series that has filmed in Malta is the Game of Thrones.
In our industry, we are living…
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…
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…
Most of us know what Two Factor Authentication is after all it has been with us for over 25 years. But while we have all been busy things have been changing slowly and steadily, especially when it comes to choosing whether to deploy hardware, software…
Provisioning.
Workflow.
Policies.
When these words come up people suddenly have a thought in their mind defining its meaning. Many Identity Management products sound the same, One identity even has multiple products that may use the same words to describe…
We recently had the opportunity to host an interview with Tim Eichmann, Head of Cloud & Infrastructure at Core Technology Systems (UK) Limited and One Identity.
Core Technology Systems (UK) Limited help organisations large and small to achieve their…
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…
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…
