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Ping Identity has announced Ping Federate 7, including support for OpenID Connect and System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM). The support for SCIM really excites me. And this is why: For SSO one usually needs an account in the target system, to this end some service providers allow for just-in-time creation of such accounts at [...]
I was surprised to see almost a month has gone by since I visited the European Identity Conference (EIC) hosted by KuppingerCole in Munich, so I wanted to quickly share my top five takeaways from the event: the evolution of Access Governance, the API economy, XACML’s obituary, the resurrection of Context Based Access Control, and [...]
From Identity & Access Management to Identity & Access Governance The past two years we have seen a major shift to Identity & Access Governance (IAG) as the path towards being in control of access rights within the enterprise. This is an important departure from the traditional Identity & Access Management and user provisioning projects [...]
Tonight SailPoint have announced their newest version of IdentityIQ: version 6.1. Highlights of this version are according to SailPoint: Electronic signatures for certification sign-off and access request approvals A major improvement in the signing of request. Signing of is now much more like putting a real signature on a document. An electronic signature is attached [...]
Recently SailPoint have introduced a new product: AccessIQ. AccessIQ allows companies to control their employees’ access to cloud bases applications and provides single sign-on to those applications, making life easier to both IT and employees. AccessIQ is targeted at companies that use a lot of cloud based applications and integrates with IdentityIQ. The integration with [...]
Do you need Continuous Integration in your project? I think it depends. First of all we need to establish a common understanding of what I mean when I’m talking about Continuous Integration. I think you are employing Continuous Integration if you have an autonomous system in place that watches changes to the code base and [...]
Authentication is the act of verifying a claimed identity. Due to brute force attacks, malware, phishing and password reuse the assumption that the password is only known to the legitimate end-user does not always hold. In comes strong authentication, which provides more security and is less likely to be breached. Though there are solutions that [...]
On the 23rd of April 2013, a former Dutch government official has been convicted for spying and selling sensitive information to agents of the Russian intelligence services. He had access to information, to which he should not have had access to. This would be the perfect opportunity for the Dutch government to implement an identity [...]
Afgelopen februari werd door Novell en NetIQ wederom een BrainShare conferentie georganiseerd in Salt Lake City. Op BrainShare presenteren onder andere Novell en NetIQ hun toekomstplannen en nieuwe producten. Interessant op te zien was dat NetIQ zogenaamde Enhancement Packs gaat uitbrengen voor IDM 4.0.2. Deze enhancement packs kunnen zonder problemen geïnstalleerd worden op bestaande (4.0.2) [...]
Binnen bedrijven is een verschuiving zichtbaar van het gebruik van interne applicaties naar het gebruik van cloud applicaties. Met de update van NetIQ IDM naar versie 4.0.2 biedt NetIQ een goede basis voor de uitbreiding van bedrijven richting de Cloud. Het gebruik van cloud applicaties betekent dat werknemers binnen een bedrijf een account moeten krijgen [...]