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The last two years have been a wild and crazy ride for most companies. Mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, unexpected growth, and reorganization – it all comes down to change. They say that change is good and should be embraced, but sometimes change can have bad results, specifically when organizations...
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I recently spent a few days with a customer who is leveraging NetIQ’s user provisioning solutions to automate their processes for creating, modifying, disabling, and deleting accounts. While it’s often said that user provisioning can be a time-consuming and complex project to implement, I...
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Gartner’s Security and Risk Management summit last week provided me with much food for thought. I found the Identity and Access Management sessions to be of great value and I’ve been pondering many comments made by Perry Carpenter during his sessions. Here are a few of my favorites and my...
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I just got back from a great week in Washington, D.C. where I attended the Gartner Information Security Summit . It was a week of double duty – staffing the booth and attending sessions – but the content and discussions and touching base with some great NetIQ customers made the trip well...
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It was via The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (referred to as 'The On-Boarding Bible’) by Michael Watkins , Chairman of Genesis Advisers and regular Harvard Business Review blogger , that I was introduced to employee on-boarding commandment number six...
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Jun 24, 2010
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Filed under: IT Process Automation, Aegis, User De-provisioning, Active Directory, The First 90 Days, Employee Onboarding, IT Administrator, Hardware, Human Resources, User Provisioning, Software, Employee Offboarding
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Hot off the heels of a great week at TechEd in New Orleans, there was one recurrent theme discussed in presentations, break-out sessions and on the show floor – Active Directory native tools don’t provide the granular and secure administration that IT organizations need in today’s complex...
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Active Directory is here to stay. As Active Directory increasingly becomes the single facilitator of information flow in your organization, it’s important to consider how you’re going to administer and secure Active Directory in a long...
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After multiple rounds with an identity thieft last year, I think twice about what happens with my personal information when I share it. And while I’d rather not give my personal information to anyone, as the old saying goes, there are really only two certainties in life, death and taxes. As I work...
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Last week, we sang Happy Birthday to Active Directory, and now that the candles are blown out and the party has concluded, it’s back to reality -- a reality that still has us dealing with the challenges of securely and efficiently administering Active Directory. So, with RSA starting today and...
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It’s long been understood that the capabilities of native Active Directory management tools don’t scale well and don’t provide the security necessary for today’s enterprise to achieve and maintain compliance. As Active Directory has increasingly become the central repository and...
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Think back to your first day of work at a new job (could be your current one or a past one.) Remember how exciting things were, you were in HR orientation learning about your benefits and vacation policy – learning about your 401k options… all that good stuff that you get filled with when...
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It’s that time of year; the auditors are out and organizations across the globe are assessing their security posture. To be compliant or not to be compliant… that is the question that auditors and security teams alike are out to answer. In the past, Active Directory has often been overlooked...
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If you didn’t know already, there are only eight shopping days left before Christmas. Have you made your list? Have you checked it twice? Well, if you haven’t (or if you’re like me and there is really no end to your wish list), here are some things to consider adding when Santa asks...