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Quest IdM catch-up move?

By ⋅ July 20, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Just saw an article over on Network World that Quest Software just bought ActiveEntry from Volcker Informatik AG. From a brief skim of the website, ActiveEntry looks like a heavily MS centric provisioning / workflow system – which sounds quite similar to Quest’s existing Active Roles server product. I haven’t had the chance to play [...]

Microsoft FIM is GA

By ⋅ March 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Microsoft announced at the RSA conference that they’re shipping (finally!) the GA version of Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010. We recently deployed an early adopter release of FIM here to synchronise accounts between the various Active Directories in different parts of the organisation and our Lotus Notes infrastructure. That project was kind enough to [...]

Novell IdM in the Cloud

By ⋅ December 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I’ll have to look into this further, but it looks like Novell are providing some toolkits to embed identity and access management into internally developed web apps and for those companies building cloud computing apps. http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/328877/novell_vows_first_identity_management_cloud_virtualized_apps?eid=-100 The upcoming Novell Identity Manager 4 will add the new ability for IT managers embed identity management and other [...]

Self funding identity management projects

By ⋅ August 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Not bad, 3000ft view, approach to getting IdM initiatives off the ground posted over on cio.com. Four steps to self-funding identity management Plagiarising Chris with my own 2c, here are the major steps: 1. Education: Identify the key business problems you need to solve. [AB] In large organisations, there are always people feeling the pain [...]

If IBM buys SUN, whose IAM suite wins?

By ⋅ March 19, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

We’re living in interesting times. With share prices at an all time low for many tech giants, its a great time to go company shopping if you’re big and cashed up. I remember the days when Sun IM was the beez neez of provisioning and identity life-cycle management and IBM Tivoli IM still shipped with [...]

Sun identity hero game

By ⋅ February 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m sure it’s been around for long a time, but I’ve just come across Sun’s Identity Hero game. This definitely provides a chuckle (unless you’re an auditor or responsible for SOX) . Remember not to run over the “disgruntled employees” without an “Access Management” powerup. You’ll loose a life. I got to level 6 and [...]

Open Source IdM

By ⋅ January 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Thanks to a meeting with a vendor just before Christmas, I recently became aware that there are more open source identity management projects out there than you think (or at least, more than I thought). Some are still in a pretty embryonic stage, but others have been around for a  long time. Who knows, we [...]

Yep, identricity.com is live!

By ⋅ January 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

After days of toil, we’ve finally got the blog live. Identricity.com covers identity and access management news from Australia and around the world. Where does the name come from? I think the identity part is clear, but well, there are some ‘eccentricities’ in our industry – minor nuances that anyone involved in IdM/IAM/IM projects in [...]

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