Category: Roadmap
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Harold Leavitt coined the phrase people, process, and technology in his 1964 paper, Applied Organization Changes in Industry. It’s been over a half a century since the introduction of this concept as a method to identify the key components for business success, yet IAM organizations (actually almost any organization) tend to default to solving problems … Continue reading IAM LESSON LEARNED #4: Determine Whether You Have People, Process, or Technology Issues
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In our last entry we talked about determining the true current state of your IAM Processes and Technology. Uncovering the true current state and documenting the details are often not one and the same. If assessing the true current state is the natural starting point, then the next logical step is documenting the details so … Continue reading IAM LESSON LEARNED #3: DOCUMENTING THE CURRENT STATE IS CRITICAL
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Recently we were asked to list the top pitfalls we at IDMWORKS have encountered in our experience over the last 10+ years as to what makes a project fail. This list is NOT specific to Identity Management but IS specific to ALL projects. 1. Lack of Requirements – This is the number one reason we have … Continue reading Why Do IDM Projects Fail?
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Recently we had a customer with an existing provisioning application that was quite a few revisions back. They also wanted to add Role Management functionality to their environment. Additionally their IDM infrastructure was hosted by a another company which was causing a wrinkle in their plans. So the questions became: Path I – Purchase and … Continue reading The Path Less Taken – When and Why to Futz with your Identity Management
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The Who, What Where, When, Why and How of IDMWorks. IDMWorks is a vendor agnostic, Identity Management, Access Management, and Governance, Risk and Compliance Management Consultancy. Interestingly enough I have been asked many times as to what exactly IDMWorks is and what it is that we do (and I don’t just mean the wife and … Continue reading Zen and the the Art of Identity Management
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Identity Management – Best Practices With the current regulations and audit requirements being placed on organizations, many companies are looking to Identity Management (IdM) solutions to help achieve control of who has access to what resources. This includes not only the provisioning of access rights, but also the ability to change access when individuals change … Continue reading Provisioning Roadmap