What’s all this talk about Active Directory being obsolete?
You may have heard rumblings that Microsoft Active Directory – lovingly acronymed as ‘AD’ – is “becoming obsolete and should be replaced”. You may have also heard that “you should reduce…
The modern business world doesn’t go around without them: contractors, outsourced service providers and partners. Collectively known as third parties, they can be outside developers, business consultants, freelancers or partners who must connect to your…
It's October, so it's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! And one of the main themes for this year's edition is multi-factor authentication: login protection by using more authentication factors than just the password. The second factor could be a…
In recent years, Malta has been a setting for many movies and TV series – the landscape and scenery providing a superb back-drop for many tales. One recent TV series that has filmed in Malta is the Game of Thrones.
In our industry, we are living…
Most of us know what Two Factor Authentication is after all it has been with us for over 25 years. But while we have all been busy things have been changing slowly and steadily, especially when it comes to choosing whether to deploy hardware, software…
Provisioning.
Workflow.
Policies.
When these words come up people suddenly have a thought in their mind defining its meaning. Many Identity Management products sound the same, One identity even has multiple products that may use the same words to describe…
Organizations are sprinting to Office 365. In fact, users will have to convert by Oct. 13, 2020 as support for Office 2020 ceases that day. By then, many organizations will be 100-percent cloud, but most are so heavily invested in legacy infrastructure…
Using the single, familiar Active Roles interface, there is no longer a need to be constantly switching between consoles, and writing complex scripts in an attempt to automate, because Active Roles does it for you.
Creation of a user, for example, can…
With version 7.1, the One Identity Active Roles solution has expanded its scope to cover both on-prem AD (as its always done) and Azure AD. Here’s an explanation of how it works.
The ADSI provider serves as the interface between the Active Roles…
The cloud isn’t coming — it’s here. And the quicker we all get on board, the better off we’ll be, right?!
Digital transformation, IT modernization projects and cost-control initiatives all point to the cloud as the easiest, most…
Exhibit A: Teacher gave me an overview of my child’s theory on school.
My 5 year old started kindergarten at public school this week. It’s not a huge difference for her – she’s attended daycare, preschool, pre-k for the last few years.…
Organizations in the process of migrating to Office 365, particularly those that run Active Directory in-house and leverage it to provide single-sign-on to Microsoft applications, quickly learn that moving to the cloud-based productivity suite means extra…
Active Directory holds such a prominent position in the enterprise, that inadequate management and security of this universally accepted directory can be a major barrier to IAM success. For all its goodness, AD is woefully lacking in native management…
“The Cloud” is changing business in many ways. This discussion is mostly targeting B2B and B2C applications and how cloud and SaaS offerings are affecting access control and security.
Cloud and SaaS offerings affect businesses in the reduced…
