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…

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…

Today, more than ever, organizations must address the proliferation of cloud-based applications and digitally transform their business to stay ahead of the competition and meet customer’s demands. While cloud applications provide convenient and flexible…

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…

Join Joe Campbell, One Identity  Principal Security Advisor for his session"'Identity in Depth';The Evolution of Defense" on Monday June 19th at 4:15PM in Ballroom X. 

Here is a sneak peak:

Traditional ‘Defense in Depth’ IT security strategies…

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.…

Remember in the movie Elf when Buddy is working in the department store and his manager tells everyone to get ready because tomorrow Santa will be seeing kids in the toy department? Remember how excited Buddy was … maybe a little too excited for the actual…

Years ago, when I was much younger, skinnier, and tougher, I was a pretty good runner. In fact for a couple of years I was the fastest female marathon runner in the state of Utah (we won’t mention the fact that I’m a guy, and couldn’t get close to the…

The whole point of identity and access management (IAM) is to ensure that the right people have the right access to the right stuff at the right time in the right way and that all the other right people say that it’s okay that they have that access.…

Let’s talk directories for a minute. In identity and access management (IAM) it all starts with the directory – after all, you need someplace to set up the account and hold authorizations and you need something to authenticate against. Everything that…

We all have Active Directory (AD), and love it or hate it, we cannot survive without it. Nothing brings IT to a grinding halt faster than an inability of users to logon to the critical systems accessed through AD. When people can’t get to Exchange, or…

Ask anyone that’s not an identity and access management expert to define IAM, and I’ll bet the majority of the time they’ll describe single sign-on (SSO). It’s the easiest to understand, most visible and perhaps highest impact area of IAM – at least…

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…

Imagine if you could move security from a series of static yes/no decisions to a dynamic, adaptive approach that takes into account the circumstances of an access request and enforces the correct decision for the individual situation. This is an emerging…

Clear proof that Identity and Access Management solutions are MUCH more effective than your favorite pain reliever!

Learn how the City of Houston relieved its application access and password-induced headaches when it implemented One Identity Manager…

Did you know that ten months ago, Quest released a new web authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and identity federation solution? It’s true! The product is called One Identity Cloud Access Manager, and the current release is version 7.1.

Cloud Access…

I spend way too much of my time thinking about identity and access management (IAM). I guess it’s what pays the bills, so that’s a good thing. I get paid to write about, talk about, and evangelize the One Identity way of doing IAM.

I’ve written…

Organizations in the process of migrating to Office 365, particularly those that run Active Directory in-house and leverage it to provide single-sign-on to Microsoft applications, quickly learn that moving to the cloud-based productivity suite means extra…

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…

“The Cloud” is changing business in many ways. This discussion is mostly targeting B2B and B2C applications and how cloud and SaaS offerings are affecting access control and security.

Cloud and SaaS offerings affect businesses in the reduced…

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…

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…

Have you ever opened a software interface and didn’t have the slightest clue how to use it, or even worse, what it was for? The One Identity User Experience (UX) Team recognizes that the interfaces of our products are not immune to this. That is not acceptable…