Self-service concepts have been around for quite a while, but new strides in IT applications have revolutionized business efficiency, reduced costs, and empowered end-users. Traditionally, new resource requests bounce around an organization until gaining the proper...
User Provisioning
7 Factors To Consider With Automated User Provisioning
User account provisioning encompasses account creation, setup, and ongoing management to ensure employees retain access to the IT resources their jobs require. Provisioning is one of the major aspects of the user account lifecycle. Automated provisioning executes...
How to reduce the risks associated with onboarding new employees
We are all susceptible to the curse of “password fatigue”, or struggling to remember countless logins and passwords. It becomes incredibly difficult to keep track of them all, forcing many to make their passwords easy to remember, often at the expense of security....
Why You Need to Ditch Manual Provisioning
As much as the road less traveled often builds character, who would actually prefer the long and winding path over a quick and painless shortcut? Whether you recognize it or not, we have all been given shortcuts to make our daily lives easier: You can head to the...
Risky Business: Overcoming Onboarding Exposure (Explicitly, Perilous Passwords)
Few everyday technology interactions get on people's nerves quite as much as the dreaded "Password Expired" notification. It is bad enough having to remember all of your passwords before having to change it up with a new value or a slightly different version of an...
The Phased Approach to Implementation
Over the past 11 years I have, as a consultant and project manager, implemented and managed many IAM solutions. These projects have varied from very small to enterprise-level solutions. This experience has given me quite an insight into how businesses operate, how to...
Connecting Office 365 to Identity Access Management Solutions
Microsoft Cloud is revolutionizing the way organizations across various industries operate; providing various services at a minimal cost and scalability that fits the needs of any organization. Microsoft’s productivity service Office 365 has opened the doors for...
Benefits of Connecting with EPIC
If your organization uses EPIC you know how tedious and time consuming it can be to manage user accounts in the application. Each time a new nurse, doctor, or other employee joins the organization an account needs to be manually created for them and access rights...
Your Employees Are Most Likely Using Simple Passwords
One way to improve security is forcing employees to use unique passwords that are regulated by their employer. The stronger the password the stronger the security. There are software options that will allow employers to extend the password complexity rules and enforce...
What Every Network Administrator Should Know About Account Management
Each and every Network Administrator can tell you the most boring, mundane, repetitive, time-consuming, and coincidentally crucial part of their job is creating and maintaining user logons, permissions, and group management. It’s boring and mundane because it is a...
How IAM Solutions Can Help Non-Profit Organizations
In the Non-Profit sector, it is not uncommon for the IT department to be faced with cutbacks and staff reductions. IT managers are constantly searching for ways to reduce time consuming manual IT processes and work smarter with a shrinking budget. One proven way...
Automating Telephony Systems: Save Time & Headaches
Telephone systems play an important role in organizations, since employees in almost all industries each use their own phone and extension for communication internally and externally. When a new employee joins the company they need to be assigned a new phone and...
Simplified Management for Distribution Lists
As a system administrator, managing a large number of distribution lists can be a tedious task. Parsing through email requests and support tickets for adding and/or removing distribution list members, with the occasional approval required from upper management, can...
Does Managing Contractor Accounts Give You a Headache?
Does your company hire outside workers or contractors who work for a limited amount of time at your organization? Managing these types of accounts can be a headache since there is constant movement, and employees of this type need to be quickly added but then also...
Battle of the Email Solutions: Exchange vs. Google Apps
In the industry I am in, with the job functions I perform daily, I see more and more organizations moving from an in-house email solution such as Exchange to cloud-based email solutions like Office 365 and Google Apps. This is due to many reasons and an easy way to...
IAM & Course Folder Management: A Surprisingly Unknown Solution Feature
There is a lot of functionality which makes up an IAM solution but course folder management is functionality which continues to astonish system admins. When obtaining an identity management product, one would not expect the ability to manage the full lifecycle of...