Identity-Access-Management-Concepts

Identity-Access-Management-Concepts, User Provisioning
March 15, 2019

Write Back Email, Username and Phone to SAP HR Using SailPoint IIQ

Frustrated with writing back new username and email to SAP HR? You’re not alone. Most joiner processes for new hires generate an username and email address dynamically, but a problem can arise when using SAP HR systems because there is no direct way to write back the newly generated username and email to SAP HR […]

Automation Solutions, Identity-Access-Management-Concepts
December 28, 2018

Deploy Automatically to AWS Lambda via Azure Pipelines

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Microsoft recently announced Azure DevOps, a collection of services for software development teams. The individual services are quite extensible and have a generous free tier for small teams. Specifically, the Azure Pipelines service is intriguing, offering a full-featured continuous integration / continuous deployment platform with 1,800 free build minutes per month. In a previous […]

Enterprise Password Management, Identity-Access-Management-Concepts
August 23, 2018

Enabling unsolicited login in OAM 11gR2

What Is Unsolicited Login? Unsolicited login is the functionality where users access some part or feature of an application anonymously, but another part or feature requires them to login/authenticate before using those features. An Unsolicited Login Scenario For OAM Let’s assume that there’s an application ABC which we access using www.abc.com. By default, any user […]

Automation Solutions, Identity-Access-Management-Concepts
August 17, 2018

Deploy Automatically to AWS Lambda via Bitbucket Pipelines

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bitbucket’s Pipelines feature allows you to configure continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) directly within Bitbucket, without an external CI/CD server such as Jenkins. In this article, we’ll walk through configuring Bitbucket Pipelines to deploy AWS Lambda functions automatically. We’ll create a new AWS Lambda function, create a new Bitbucket repository to hold our […]

Soap Web Services API Calling The Login Function Using Python IAM Image

Enterprise Password Management, Identity-Access-Management-Concepts
March 21, 2018

Hitachi ID SOAP Web Services API – Calling The Login Function Using Python

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One of the many exciting features of the Hitachi ID Identity and Access Management (IAM) Suite is the web services API which is accessible using SOAP over HTTPS with a WSDL specification. This API allows other enterprise applications to access workflow request queue, user data and resources that exist within an instance of the Hitachi […]

Identity-Access-Management-Concepts, User Provisioning
September 16, 2016

SSPR 5006 Error “The username is not valid or does not have a configured response”

Have you ever ran into a situation where you think everything is in place and ready to go only to run into an unexpected error? Sure you have, we all have. And the other day was no different for me. After performing an install and configuration of SSPR 3.3 in a new environment, I thought […]

Enterprise Password Management, Identity-Access-Management-Concepts
June 30, 2016

Best Practices For Unique Login Names

We’ve put together a short list of some best practices for unique login names. Users having a unique name is important for auditing and security. Define a method early on to help assure users are always unique across all systems and helps pinpoint any security and audit concerns quickly. Avoid recognizable naming standards. Such as […]

Identity-Access-Management-Concepts, IDM
January 7, 2016

IDM & the Holidays: Part III

Now that the holiday season has drawn to a close, the focus of the New Year turns to accelerating growth for many companies. And this often means new hires to support new business. Previously, I talked about how the holidays can be a real struggle for end users and support techs because of passwords. People […]

Identity-Access-Management-Concepts, User Provisioning
October 29, 2015

The Balancing Act of Keeping Unauthorized Users Out

For those of you responsible somehow for the security of your company’s network and information stores, your job never ends. You are placed between two points of diminishing returns between authentic users and the rest of the world: hackers, competitors, prior employees, and list goes on. I compare your job to one I previously had […]

Identity-Access-Management-Concepts, What Is IAM
September 25, 2015

The Case for IAM Post Production Support

Depending on your role within an Identity & Access Management shop, successes are defined by various proverbial champagne-popping accomplishments. If your role is that of a Software Engineer, you and your colleagues give each other a pat on the back and an “atta-go!” on the day the major release of the product you’ve been working […]