The list of regulatory and other mandates that require some level of Identity Management is ever growing. Having a documented process and then relying on people to follow those processes is not enough to ensure compliance to these mandates. The only real solution to mitigate process breach is to implement systems to guarantee access controls.
If your organization is subject to CFATS, SOX, HIPPA, FISMA, FERPA, PCI or any other
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As we have the privilege of talking to customers about their Identity Management needs, one of the requests that comes up over and over again is around the delegation of Account Management.
There are many use cases where delegation makes sense. One that we run into daily is the need for teachers to be able to unlock accounts or reset passwords for students. Allowing this capability to flow to the teacher level greatly
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We work with organizations every day that consume a number of their services from “the cloud”. For many commercial and government customers these are services like Google Apps or Zendesk. For education customers, we see a lot of Live@EDU, Google Apps and Raptor V-Soft but the list of service providers is endless.
We all know that managing identity and access within our internal systems is challenging enough and the idea of
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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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