I recently watched a great video on cloud federation by Coreblox and Ping Identity. You know the problem they’re trying to solve, your users are using applications in the cloud and your access and authorization solutions are stuck on premise. Ping Identity solves that beautifully. Here’s the gist: an Active Directory user is added to…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So behold this novella: Imanami’s GroupID won the Best Windows Product award at the recent Windows Connections conference in Las Vegas. Our HQ lobby is filled with awards and plaques and other achievements but I find this one a little more satisfying than most. Why? Because…
In the world of Active Directory, groups are binary: they exist or they don’t. Other Active Directory objects can be tombstoned, but with groups, they become useless once tombstoned since all of the ACLs and memberships are lost. And Active Directory doesn’t give you the ability to expire and renew them while keeping all of…
The average organization has just under 20% annual internal turnover. This means that 1 in 5 employees will change jobs per year. At the same time, external turnover is approximately 5%, meaning 1 in 20 employees will leave the organization. That, my friend, is a lot of change. But it is nothing compared to the…
Imanami has been chosen as a SINET 16 Innovator and asked to present at the annual SINET Showcase. Each year, a select group of technology companies that can improve efficiency and security at government agencies are asked to present and demonstrate their solutions. Imanami’s GroupID will help solve identity management security problems from group-based access control…
I was recently talking to a customer about the best practice for deprovisioning a terminated employee in Active Directory. Delete or disable? Microsoft doesn’t give the clearest direction on this but common sense does. The case for deleting an account is that, BOOM, no more access. No ifs ands or buts, if there is no…