Nearly every organization today needs a way to have visibility and control into who has access to what. This often times comes in the form of identity management and governance (IMG) solutions. IMG solutions are built around the fundamental principle of providing the right users the right access to the right resources for the right…
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Why Hybrid IT Environments Need IGA
An increasing number of organizations are adopting a mix of cloud-based and on-premises applications – a move which has been accelerated by the need for employees to work remotely. The ever-prescient Gartner saw this shift coming pre-pandemic and predicted that in 2021, more than 75% of midsize and large organizations would have adopted some kind of multi-cloud…
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Beyond Best Practices TWG Brings New Insights and Also… Sharks?
As we celebrate the first-ever Identity Management Day, I had a chance to reflect on the Beyond Best Practices Technical Working Group’s contributions over the past year, and one word came to mind: Creativity. It’s the one skill that underpins nearly every successful identity management team. Whether it’s finding a way to glue together the Active…
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Identity Management Day: What Sharks and Your Identity Program Have in Common
Legend has it that in 1988 the idea for Shark Week was hatched over a round of drinks and documented on the back of a napkin as an awesome (and fun) way to capture more viewers. Seems like it worked: Discovery Channel viewers doubled after the very first Shark Week. Fast forward to 2021, and…
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The Unique Challenges of Customer Identity and Access Management
As the world faced quarantines, stay at home orders and shuttered businesses, even normally reluctant consumers were forced to go online to grocery shop, order take-out and stay connected to friends and family. This focus on transacting daily tasks on-line placed a major spotlight on an emerging subset of identity security, customer identity and access…
