Tag Archives: Identity Management

More Fun with IDM provisioning for Exchange

So, after talking to my dev manager back at my office, I went back again to talk with the MS Tech folks to see if they could answer a few more questions.  I ended up talking with a guy named Phillippe … Continue reading

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Surviving identity management in a hybrid world

azure ad connect First, if you are using Dir sync, it is almost too late to migrate.  Need to do that SOON! Azure AD connect.  Manages accounts and identities for the cloud.  Several options: Verified domains.  If you have a … Continue reading

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Updating exchange online from IDM

I spoke with the exchange online tech guys in the expo area about how to replicate the current functionality we have from our IDM environment in regards to exchange config. In particular, I asked about the following use cases: Create … Continue reading

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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

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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

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The Emerging Architecture of Modern Identity

Mary Ruddy Identity systems must be more agile.  Need to think of them differently. Traditionally, it was an on premise staff member, accessing servers and desktops locally.  All kinds of physical security could be in place.  Today that is not … Continue reading

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Gartner One on One: Lori Robinson

Identity Management Replacement Had a great conversation with Lori Robinson, VP from Gartner. Talked to her about the future plans that we have for replacing our Identity Management solution.  She asked me some great questions to first learn about what … Continue reading

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Ping Identity: Identity Defined Security

Patrick Harding Started talking about the golden years of leveraged AuthN.  Basically described what we have implemented at Vanderbilt. but what that doesn’t do well: Wasn’t designed for cloud, SaaS, BYOD.  Nor was it ready to scale. OAuth 2.0 – … Continue reading

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Protecting Privileged Accounts:

Anne Robins This was an interesting session. She began by talking about several big security breaches that have occurred over the past few years.  Each one were results of a privileged account’s credentials being compromised.  She then went on to … Continue reading

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Centrify – cloud based privilege identity management for the modern enterprise

Brad Zehring Identity is the new perimeter.  It is the center of new cyber attacks.  Start with end user accounts and then later hijack privileged accounts.  The future environment has no physical boundaries.  Can’t just segregate off a part of … Continue reading

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