Events and breaches over the last few years have exposed, in a high-profile way, particular vulnerabilities of our modern IT environments.
It’s obvious now that perimeter security alone is no longer sufficient to protect our highly dynamic, connected and mobile enterprises.
Additional drivers, such as insider threats, emphasize the need to protect identities. And a key component of identity management for most organizations is Active Directory (AD).
As 95 percent of enterprises rely on AD as their primary authentication mechanism, AD is a popular target for the bad guys.
One Identity Active Roles can help your organization smooth out all the recent status and permissions changes in your AD environment, and make AD account lifecycle management agile, automated and secure. Active Roles can help you simplify and...
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions form the core of many organizations’ security strategy, but SIEMs can be expensive, eat up storage and get overwhelmed by the amount and number of formats of log data that they need to...
You wouldn’t invest a fortune to build your dream home on a crumbling cliff, so why would you place your organization’s security, compliance and business intelligence systems on a foundation of weak data? The heart of your organization’s data...
Managing Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD accounts, objects and groups is a cumbersome and error-prone task. Often this task creates a barrier to achieving more advanced objectives, such as identity governance and administration (IGA). Native...
Aquila Heywood wanted to update its privileged access management processes to increase data security and efficiency. The existing solution involved manual steps and lacked features such as centralised control of privileged access passwords. The...
The goal of this survey was to capture hard data on current experiences, trends and approaches to Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM) and account management and Identity...
Administrators need easy access to elevated and mission-critical IT assets that control the operation and function of the broader enterprise. Often, the only way to get that access is to use privileged accounts. While operating systems have become...
In this document, there are 10 steps that you can take to remediate user account problems in AD and to prevent them from occurring in the future. These steps use native AD features and common workflow technology such as Microsoft SharePoint, so no...
Currently, nearly ninety percent of organizations worldwide are using Active Directory (AD) for on-premises resources (aka on-prem). In fact, in the world of identity and access management (IAM), AD has become unavoidable and absolutely necessary...
Westley: Give us the gate key. Yellin: I have no gate key. Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off. Yellin: Oh, you mean this gate key. The Princess Bride - 1987 governance matters. This section will address the foundational concepts of access...
"Today if we need to add a new administrator, we can do it on multiple servers simultaneously. And if someone leaves, we only need to disable the active directory account and access to all UNIX and Linux servers associated with that account is...
For many organizations, SAP® applications and services are mission-critical. However, SAP applications often must meet strict standards demanded by regulatory compliance, internal controls and corporate best practices, including: • Ensuring that...
These “commodity” [AD-bridge] solutions lack enterprise-level functionality—such as extending AD Group Policy, audit, and management capabilities— nor can they consistently deploy the solution across multiple operating systems. “….most...
energy to education, and from manufacturing to retail. The reason for the high costs? Simply put, it’s expensive to perform the same action, again and again, across systems that are not sharing the same basic identity infrastructure. Managing...
To access Business Objects or execute SAP transactions, which are both protected by authorization objects (which are explained below), a user requires corresponding authorizations. The authorizations represent instances from unauthorized access. The...
The root of the problem The challenge with IAM in an SAP-centric environment are the same as IAM failures elsewhere, but SAP seems to make it riskier if you get it wrong. It comes down to complexity and ownership. The complexity is due to the fact...
Most organizations implement technology to do things better, deliver higher value, fulfill their mission and become more agile. After all, technology should make things easier. But often it seems that many IT initiatives slow operations and...
See how these six organizations use One Identity solutions to #GetIAMRight 3 7 Texas A&M University Health Science Center 5 City of Bakersfield 8 The Alliance 6 Sky 9 JYSK Nordic 4 City of Coppell Active Roles Defender Identity Manager Identity...
inventorying what’s available on SharePoint. And that inefficiency keeps administrators from working on other projects. Ineffectiveness Fortunately, there is a civilized process that you can use to address the challenges of data access governance....