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Category Archives: Identity Management
Provisioning to O365 cloud
So, I just spoke with a guy name Romero at the MS Tech Expo. He works EMS Identity space. I described for him our current environment, and asked him about the best way to provision identities to the O365 cloud. … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Identity Management, Microsoft Ignite 2017
Tagged authentication, cloud, Identity Management, Security
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ADFS what’s new and upcoming
ADFS largest federation provider for azure ad. Released ADFS 2016. High adoption rates. Nobody likes passwords. Alpha numeric passwords are hard for humans to remember and easy for computers to guess. Use of username and passwords in extranet leads to … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Identity Management, Microsoft Ignite 2017
Tagged Identity Management, MFA, Policy
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The Four Pillars of Identity: A solution for online success
Trends and Challenges: explosive data growth – Massive amounts of data that is being collected. Need to secure access to this data proliferation of devices – mulitple devices per user. don’t always have management policies for those devices. personal devices. … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Identity Management, Teched2012
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Managing and Extending ADFS
Improvements and Enhancements in ADFS [ Interesting session. Very technical. The presenter went into details of how to configure and customize the ADFS experience. He showed how to setup config files and tricks and "hacks" to customize the user experience. … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Identity Management, Teched2012
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Answers Picture Auth and AD
Just got done talking to a Microsoft AD specialist. I asked him about what I had seen this morning with the authentication on the tablet using picture auth. My question was whether they were storing finger strokes or any other … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Identity Management, security, Teched2012
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Windows Azure Active Directory
Old days: intranet. sign in to each app seperately. Over the past decades all that has been centralized and consolidated. For new applications today, need to avoid falling back to where we were. Federated solutions help with this, but don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Identity, Identity Management, Teched2012
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Windows Azure Active Directory
Old days: intranet. sign in to each app seperately. Over the past decades all that has been centralized and consolidated. For new applications today, need to avoid falling back to where we were. Federated solutions help with this, but don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Identity, Identity Management, Teched2012
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Higher Ed’s role in the Identity Ecosystem
This was by far the best session and most informative for the IAM space. Lots of great thoughts and ideas. There are some very big entities involved in changing and creating identity provider infrastructures and frameworks that it will change … Continue reading
Posted in Educause 2011, Identity, Identity Management
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UK Access Management Federation Collaboration?
I was able to sit down and speak with Nicole Harris from JISC some more about the federation that they have in the UK. It sounds like it is primarily focused on the UK at this point. They have almost … Continue reading
Posted in Educause 2009, Identity Management
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Lessons from the UK Access Management Federation
Background: federation funded by two groups. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and Becta (Government organization focused on effective and innovative use of technology) Federation today: “Technology is easy. It’s the people who are the challenge.” To over come issues with … Continue reading
Posted in Educause 2009, Identity Management
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Dan at a Conference 