Identity and access management (IAM) technologies to secure data and provide user convenience are a huge boost for businesses today that on average use up to 50 on-premises applications and 25 cloud-based applications. But a new survey from Symplified of IT executives and administrators shows many organizations with IAM solutions in place have no visibility Read More
SC Magazine Reviews Hybrid IAM from Symplified
SC Magazine‘s US edition published a review today of Symplified’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution in its “Emerging Products: Cloud Security” category. The author took particular note of the straightforward administration, seamless user experience, mobile access, and support for both on-premises and cloud applications our product delivers. We’re also pleased our solution is recognized Read More
Making Identity Just Happen.
As I listened to the chatter of speakers and conference goers at last week’s Glue Conference, I heard frequently that the traditional ways of solving user identity are hard, clunky, error-prone, expensive, complicated, “Enterprisey.” Wait, Enterprisey? The architects of the Web as a Platform are restless. They are challenging all the “bits and pieces, APIs Read More
Why Does Our Identity Ecosystem Need A Framework?
Earlier this week I shared a progress report on the work the IDESG is doing to build the nation’s identity ecosystem. In it I stated that a framework of identity standards, technologies and techniques will be absolutely critical for our success. Here I’ll explain why. On its most basic level, a framework enables a variety Read More
Progress Toward Building An Identity Ecosystem
Last week I attended the fourth meeting of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) in Santa Clara, California. I was very excited to see the momentum that’s building behind this group, which is doing important work that will define the technical underpinnings of how our identity information is shared in both the public and private Read More
Legacy Identity Management Versus Identity as a Service
As organizations evaluate moving to the contemporary architecture and operations of Identity as a Service (IDaaS) from a legacy Identity Management (IdM) system, it is important to understand the differences between the two. A legacy IdM solution includes software, infrastructure, dedicated operations staff, and annual licensing support costs for the IdM software. In contrast, IDaaS Read More
SSO: The “Killer App” To Pair With Multi-factor Authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) continues to generate buzz this year. Twitter, which allegedly began exploring MFA in February, was compromised again yesterday when the AP’s Twitter account was hacked and distributed bogus tweets about President Obama which led to a brief plummet on Wall Street. We also talked about MFA last month when iCloud introduced two-factor Read More
Next in our webcast series: Merit Medical empowers a dispersed mobile workforce with security-centric IAM
Next Thursday, April 25, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, learn how a global medical device manufacturer tackled the challenge of connecting its mobile sales force to essential cloud-based applications in order to help hospitals and clinics conduct intervention and diagnostics in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy without compromising sensitive data. Lincoln Cannon, director of sales Read More
Symplified’s Newest Blogger Answers, “Why Symplified?”
Security has always been my passion. I started out 10 years ago helping local businesses in my community with their network issues and immediately recognized my career path. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to experience and manage many technologies, such as virtualization, cloud services, firewalls — and Identity and Access Management (IAM). A few Read More
Is Facebook’s Home the Next Step Toward the Convergence of Consumer and Corporate Identities?
For a long time many of us in the IAM space have been monitoring the various approaches to managing the identities of individual consumers, and those of employees and business partners. Some people think these systems will ultimately converge and each of us will have one identity – or credential – that we use to Read More