Identity Automation

I have been around Information Technology for 20 years and managing Privileged User Access has always been a challenge.

Different organizations handle this issue in different ways.  Some choose to share the password for super user accounts (root / administrator) with folks across the IT department so work can be done without hindrance.  The problem with this approach is you can’t tell who did what since the logs don’t actually

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Taking on a new solution, even one designed to lower costs, manage growing complexities, and mitigate ongoing risks, always carries a cost of ownership.  This is seen in software maintenance costs, often times an increased server footprint, and even in continued staff training and keeping their skill sets current on the technology.  More and more, we have to look beyond the benefit of the solution to the organization, and weigh

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The strength of user passwords sets the bar for the strength of an organization’s defenses against “bad guys” gaining access to valuable organizational resources.  For that reason alone, it is of paramount importance that a best practice password policy is implemented and enforced.

Following are a few guidelines to consider when thinking about password and access policy for your organization:

• Require STRONG passwords and

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While working with our customers, we are regularly surprised to find so little continuity in the way that many organizations handle their data integration. 

Usually these conversations arise because a customer needs a way to feed existing data into another system.  As you can imagine, this is a very common scenario.  What’s surprising, however, is how often the movement of this data is done in an ad-hoc fashion.  This ad-hoc

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Every organization running more than one system has a need to synchronize data. For different systems the type of data may be different but it is still just data. In all cases you have a “source” system and a “target” system. Wikipedia defines data synchronization as “the process of establishing consistency among data from a source to a target data storage and vice versa and the continuous harmonization of the data over time.”

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