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- Identity governance evolves to must-do item on personnel management and IT security checklist
- The alternative to guesswork moves IT operators and security officer closer to the level of identity governance, a step above simply granting access and privileges. It means becoming pro-active in managing roles and access across multiple dimensions in a business, across an identity governance lifecycle, for as long as users...
- Tags: IT Security, Personnel Management, Information Technology, Identity Governance, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner, Access Privilege, Fraud, Business People, Litigation
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
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- IBM releases upgrade to Tivoli software
- IBM today announced the release of a new verison of its Tivoli Identity Manager, which includes upgrades that allows the company to "administer, secure, monitor and certify user identities and their access to applications, information and systems." Basically, this is about access and being able to manage...
- Tags: Software, Tivoli Software, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Regulations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Oracle Role Manager
- Oracle Role Manager solves these challenges by providing a comprehensive feature set for role lifecycle management, business and organizational relationships and resources. Built using scalable J2EE architecture, Oracle Role Manager enables business users to define user access by abstracting resources and entitlements as roles. Organization data in existing applications can...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Role Manager, J2Ee, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Leading Practices for Driving Down the Costs of Managing Your Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
- Identity Management has become more visible as a business requirement across all industries and affects organizations of all sizes. In the current environment a security breach has the potential to impact a business's bottom line - damaging its reputation, customer loyalty and profitability. Furthermore, compliance with governance and privacy regulations...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Access Management, Identity, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security Administration, Security
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Obama names D.C. CTO Kundra as federal CIO
- President Obama today named Vivek Kundra, Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, to the position of federal chief information officer. Kundra, who previously served as a technology policy adviser for President Obama (and who ZDNet Open Source blogger Dana Blankenhorn considers "Obama's tech daddy"), will be responsible for...
- Tags: Washington, Barack Obama, CTO, Vivek Kundra, Government, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- News to know: Dell; Azure; Yahoo reorg; Facebook; Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Azure: One big, happy platform? Microsoft: Here are some of the Win 7 changes coming in...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Leadership, Strategy, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Governance: Novell's Solution Suite Automates the Approach to the Perfect Union
- This paper examines Novell's Identity and Security Management ISM solutions and how these integrated offerings can play a key role in enforcing security compliance for enterprise organizations. When properly implemented and deployed, these solutions help companies to avoid violations of government and industry regulations. It also helps to avoid the...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Information Technology, Compliance, Security Management, Identity, Compliance-magazin.de, Security
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Sustainable Identity and Access Governance
- Novell delivers the variables required for good access governance: compliance, risk, agility, cost, business assurance and administrative sustainability. Managing user access to information resources is the beating heart of IT security. Nothing is more basic to securing a network, system, application or database than providing the right access to those...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Access, Identity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?
- Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?SOA may also be nonsense like Knowledge ManagementI have heard of SOA after it became extensively publicized. Many of the articles I read failed to bring out any distinct and valuable core concept of SOA. One expert (V...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Harvard Business Review, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- News to know: Microsoft's cloud Azure; Android exploit; Windows 7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed Techmeme Why 'Azure'? Gallery: Microsoft takes wraps off Windows Azure Phil Wainewright:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businesses
- Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a Technologist and Author of the Upcoming Book, Unseen Liability. He is a Graduate of Yale and West Point. He insures Web 2.0 business risks with The Hartford. His post is a follow-up to a recent talk he gave on Web business risk. ...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- News to know: Mozilla; Windows Server; LinuxWorld; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder Mary Jo Foley: What's next for Windows Server Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008 TechRepublic: 10 questions and answers about Microsoft Live Mesh Dancho Danchev: Today's...
- Tags: google inc., larry dignan, microsoft windows server, server, apple inc., mozilla corp., linux, phishing, smart phones, service-oriented architecture (soa), cyberthreats, microsoft windows, operating systems, unix, open source, software, security, spam and phishing, consumer electronics, personal technology, web services, enterprise software
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
- The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...
- Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Standards support for mashups emerge
- The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing...
- Tags: Standards, Mashup, DataPortability.org, OpenSAM, OpenSAM Vision, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?
- The decision two weeks ago by Yahoo! to support the burgeoning openid initiative, where users choose their preferred user account provider for logging into other Web sites, was a defining moment for the increasingly popular effort to bring order and sanity to the often confusing world of user identity on...
- Tags: Account, Web, Site, Worker, Single Sign-on, Identity, Enterprise, Channel Management, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Governance: Novell's Solution Suite Automates the Approach to the Perfect Union
- This IDC White Paper examines Novell's identity and security management ISM solutions and how these integrated offerings can play a key role in enforcing security compliance for enterprise organizations. When properly implemented and deployed, these solutions help companies to avoid violations of government and industry regulations, to avoid the leakage...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Information Technology, Compliance, Security Management, Identity, International Data Group, Security
- White papers 2008-02-01
- IT security failure causes UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC) chairman to resign
- Two weeks ago, I raised serious questions about IT governance in the UK at HM Revenue & Customs HMRC. At that time, the agency lost a CD containing private information belonging to 15,000 people in the UK. Today, the agency acknowledged a far worse situation: two computer discs, containing 25...
- Tags: Revenue, IT Security, Agency, Information Technology, Tax, U.K., Committee, HMRC, Taxes, Free Trade, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Serious IT governance issues at UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
- HM Revenue & Customs HMRC continues to face multiple IT-related security, procurement, and systems issues. These problems raise serious doubts about the agency's IT governance and management. Most recently, HMRC lost a CD containing personal information and pension data for 15,000 clients of UK insurer Standard Life....
- Tags: Revenue, Payment, IT Governance, Information Technology, Disc, U.K., Electronic Data Systems Corp., HMRC, Standard Life, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- "User-centric" starts with the social, not the commercial
- I'm on a bit of a tear today, but it is because I just got over a week of Percodan-induced drooling after I had some surgery on my aging shoulder. I don't know if it is just that I am coherent for the first time since last Friday or that...
- Tags: Bank, Intermediary, Money, Financial Services, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
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