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Identity and access management (IAM) is a foundational and wide-reaching segment of any IT admin’s responsibilities. Like a Swiss army knife, IAM is not limited to a singular feature that it offers to an organization, the concept of IAM can span … Continue reading Definition of Single Sign-On
Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD) is an IT industry standard when it comes to directory services. For many organizations, AD serves as the main source of identity and access management (IAM). In today’s increasingly cloud-based IT world… Continue reading Directory Services or SSO First?
Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD) is an IT industry standard when it comes to directory services. For many organizations, AD serves as the main source of identity and access management (IAM). In today’s increasingly cloud-based IT world… Continue reading Directory Services or SSO First?
Single sign-on (SSO) lets users avoid creating and managing accounts across different services, but what happens when that main, identity-providing account gets compromised? Can users remediate a takeover of that account and other accounts tied to it? … Continue reading The single sign-on account hijacking threat and what can we do about it?
Are you a CISO or IT professional considering Microsoft AD FS as a solution to simplify access to multiple applications? While AD FS helps reduce the log on burden for end users by providing single sign on to applications or cloud services in an organi… Continue reading Considering AD FS for SSO? Here’s What CISOs Should Know
G Suite™ is one of the most popular productivity solutions for business users. Originally going by the name Google Apps, it arrived on the scene roughly a decade ago. It was brought on as a way to eliminate on-prem software such as Microsoft Exch… Continue reading G Suite™ Self-Service Password Resets
As the single sign-on (SSO) market heats up and more players file in, a common question arises. Okta® has done a tremendous job of being the cloud hosted web application single sign-on leader since going public in 2017. However, as the big dogs li… Continue reading Is There A Better Okta® Out There?
As more startups emerge and begin taking their identity security seriously, IT admins working for these organizations are searching for smart, cost-effective ways to control access to their IT resources. Finding and employing highly scalable, robust IT… Continue reading What Are the Best Okta® Alternatives for Startups?
As the IT landscape changes and shifts, there’s been a migration to the cloud. However, not all IT management tools have made the shift to the cloud. Directory services, for example, has been one of the last IT management categories to make the j… Continue reading Justifying Moving Directory Services to the Cloud
The identity management space is getting more complex, but in doing so, more interesting. It used to be that everything was based off of the core identity provider, Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD or MAD). Today, though, a new generation of … Continue reading The Battle of Directory Services vs SSO