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New CIO or Head of IT? Make a Fast, Positive Impact with Identity
On any given day, the person running IT’s real job is: PPS—professional problem solver. The set of problems they’re tasked with solving changes every day: increase business process efficiency through automation; facilitate software development and release through DevOps principles; maintain and enhance security. Against this landscape, CIOs also have another challenge: to surprise and delight…
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Avoid the 4 Identity Program Booby Traps
Sometimes the hardest part of a journey can be its first step. As organizations try to keep up with the demands of digital transformation and cloud adoption, starting an identity program can be a daunting process. Between customers, employees, and non-human identities such as systems and applications, there is a lot to think about—and a…
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IAM Best Practices Blog Series: The Importance of an Authoritative Identity Source
How much do you really know about those with access to your resources? As a company that hires employees, we know a lot about them before we give them access. We spend a lot of time vetting them and their appropriateness for a role or position. Teams are dedicated to finding and hiring the right…
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New Technical Working Group Subcommittees Chartered to Expand Guidance for Identity and Security Professionals
We’re excited to announce a significant expansion to our research and development efforts with the addition of 6 new Technical Working Group (TWG) subcommittees that encompass everything from the basics of best practices to innovations at the intersection of identity and security. Through our Technical Working Group, IDSA technology and solution provider members come together to…
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Zero Trust: Where Do You Start?
With the Zero Trust Myths out of the way, where do you start? Zero Trust is a philosophy, a set of guiding principles that can be used to improve the security posture of an organization and reduce the risk of a breach by limiting lateral movement. Implementing Zero Trust is more than simply implementing a “Zero Trust”…
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Continuing Momentum with New Members, New Framework, and Security Leader Panel at RSA Conference 2020
It’s only 56 days in to 2020 and we are already excited about the continuing momentum into the new decade! We are pleased to announce two new vendor members to the Alliance — Avatier and ForgeRock — and thrilled to add their voices and expertise to our team of identity and security leaders. In addition, we have provided our latest…
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IAM Best Practices Blog Series: Why it is Critical to Establish an IAM Governance Committee
In previous IAM Best Practices blogs my fellow customer advisory board members dove into identity ownership, ensuring identity uniqueness, where to start with provisioning and de-provisioning, discovery of assets for privileged access and establishing processes for incorporating IAM into new applications. In this blog post, I will explain why it is critical to establish a governance committee as part of identity and access…
