by Ian Glazer | June 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
As a part of its data center consolidation efforts, HP is going to be letting going 9000 IT workers. As this Computerworld article points out, although not confirmed, it highly likely that at least some of these terminated employees are system administrators. And as those admins walk out the door so too will walk an [...]
Category: Identity and Access Governance Tags: access certification, entitlement management, iag, Provisioning, role management
by Ian Glazer | June 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week I was at the recent Department of Homeland Security’s Government 2.0 Privacy and Best Practices conference. Not surprisingly the subject of transparency came up again and again. One thing that definitely caught my attention was a comment by one of the panelists that efforts towards government transparency are too often focused on data transparency [...]
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Category: Identity and Access Governance Tags: #cat09, catalyst, iag, role management
by Ian Glazer | May 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Ian Yip’s take on access management versus entitlement management can be partially summed up with this equation: Entitlement management is simply fine-grained authorisation + XACML I have four problems with this. First, definitions that include a protocol are worrisome as they can overly restrict the definition. For example, if I defined federation as authentication via SAML, [...]
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Category: Identity and Access Governance Tags: entitlement management, fga, fine-grained authorization, iag
by Ian Glazer | March 5, 2009 | Comments Off
Being the new-ish addition to the IdPS team is, well, an interesting place to be. Besides the requisite induction activities (ask me at Catalyst how you pick up the dry cleaning for a team who lives all across the country), I’ve been working with my peers on vastly different pieces of research. And being curious by [...]
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Category: Identity and Access Governance Tags: #cat09, catalyst, iag, role management
by Ian Glazer | September 4, 2008 | Comments Off
Matt Hamlin, over at Sun, mentioned a conversation we had last week about a topic in identity management which doesn’t usually get a lot of airtime: the correlation of accounts to people. The exercise is the first step in answering Matt’s simple question of “Who has access to what?” Matt writes: This step is the foundation [...]
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Category: Identity and Access Governance Tags: access certification, audit, iag, idm, role management
