Sarbanes Oxley spawned a whole new segment of the IT industry, auditing for the sake of auditing. Auditing changes within your network is, and always has been, important, but SOX compliance has veered many of the softwares that do this towards the checkbox solution. Just make sure you have auditing in place. This takes us…
There is an annoying tension in IT between security and productivity; complexity and simplicity; passwords and users. The more complex a password is, the more secure it is. And the more likely it will be forgotten. Think about it, who can remember [email protected]? Or type it without your hands cramping? But, your main goal is…
Imanami is pleased to announce GroupID 6, available immediately for customers and evaluators. GroupID 6 continues to promote directory and group management for Active Directory, bringing three new key features into the GroupID suite: Active Directory history tracking Self Service Password Reset Ability for users to opt in to smart groups Active Directory history tracking…
Every organization has distribution lists and security groups, usually lots and lots of them (that’s a technical term meaning greater than the number of users). Sometimes Active Directory is just bursting with AD groups. Every single one of these groups gives access to information, files and folders, or resources of some kind. So, obviously, accurate Active…
When it comes to Active Directory groups, more specifically to query-based distribution groups, It has long been accepted that Microsoft’s Query-Based Distribution Lists are a bad idea. It just doesn’t make sense to run a big query against Active Directory every time you want to email the list. In the same vein, Microsoft doesn’t even…
Defining identity management exactly is an interesting question. In many ways the definition is completely different from organization to organization and vendor to vendor. Wikipedia (the authoritative source of collective watered down wisdom) says: Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources…