Many of our customers are implementing or considering the implementation of hosted application services (aka SaaS). The benefits are obvious because your support burden is reduced whether that be due to increased resource utilization, hardware savings, software savings or otherwise.
For the sake of this article, let’s use the example of implementing hosted email services by Google. Google Apps is a great solution for
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Not a day goes by that we don’t have a conversation with a customer about some service they want to connect to that exists in the “cloud”. There are numerous ways to handle the authentication for those services and there is increasing interest in the use of SAML for this purpose.
If you’re not familiar with SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0), it’s a “standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data
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As school districts across the United States grapple with budget shortfalls, these same organizations face increased expectations for services to staff, students and parents.
Over the past three to five years we have seen an increase in the need for Identity Lifecycle Management needs for all district staff and we have been actively engaged with districts all across the US to implement solutions that facilitate the fulfillment
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Protection of your organization’s data assets is critical to ensuring your competitive edge as well as to fulfilling your fiduciary responsibility. Failure to implement systems to guarantee the enforcement of company policies for data access can cause serious legal troubles and shake the confidence of your customers.
Following is a recent story that documents how a terminated employee still has access to his former employer’s
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Recently I was reviewing some provisioning statistics for one of our customers using our ARMS and DSS products. I see these statistics on a daily basis because we build that into all of our IDM solutions. This week I took a minute more to really look at the numbers and put them in perspective. Here are the statistics for student provisioning at this customer site for a 24-hour period:
| Accounts Created: | 532 |
| Accounts Updated: |
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