We recently commissioned a study with Osterman Research to find out what organizations use Active Directory groups for. Part of it is selfish, we make Active Directory group management solutions, and it would be nice to know that the market is big enough. But the other, more important, factor is to make sure that we…
I am the kind of person that thinks that a person can never know too much. Clearly I am not the person who should be in charge of securing the enterprise! I was reminded of this in a great slideshow which says 87% of organizations think that their employees have too much access to information…
I recently watched a demonstration of Forefront Identity Manager’s implementation of dynamic security groups, a feature that GroupID Automate has had since its inception. The FIM query designer appeared to do a pretty good job and I was beginning to see where it would fit into the marketplace when at the 45 minute mark, the speaker…
Years ago, I heard a stat that the average user gets provisioned into 16 directories when hired and deprovisioned from only 10 directories when leaving. For the math challenged, that leaves the ex-user active in 6 directories. Which is, of course, a problem. Today’s IT infrastructures are big and complex and there are lots of nooks…
I just read an interesting study on CIO Insight which looked at how the success of enterprise software deployment was measured and evaluated. There are some great details, but one of the the bottom line conclusions is that if your users are not using, then the project is seen as unsuccessful by C suite management. Nearly…
Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) has been getting a lot of interest based on codeless sync and codeless provisioning. Carol Wapshere talks a bit about how it’s not all it’s cracked up to be on her excellent blog, Miss MIIS. She discusses a few key points about the limitations of FIM’s codeless synchronization and points out…