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Self-Service and Your Service Desk

When your users require access to systems and applications that falls outside the normal provisioning scope for their role or attributes, self-service is a lifesaver. While IT traditionally holds responsibility for ticket fulfillment, these access requests don’t even need to enter the service...

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Provisioning: Manual vs. Automated

Every IT department faces the 'revolving door' problem of user lifecycle management. Accounts and permissions must be continuously created, assigned, modified, and revoked. This has to happen in response to organizational changes -- without delay.  This process is called user provisioning. There...

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Utilizing a Cloud-Based IAM Solution in Government

Utilizing a Cloud-Based IAM Solution in Government The proper security of your systems and resources is crucial, especially when you’re handling government or private citizens’ personally identifiable information (PII) and data. Data leaks are lurking and can have far-reaching implications that...

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Secure Remote Work: What Must Companies Do?

How can your organization maintain security now that employees are working from home? When an employee begins working from home, it is important that they have an understanding of how to protect the security of your organization’s resources. From VPNs, MFA, and creating complex passwords, to...

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Multifactor Authentication (MFA), what are the options?

Providing easy and secure access to enterprise applications is something that every organization aspires to do. Single Sign-On (SSO) can offer a significant improvement in efficiency because you can access all of your resources and applications with a single set of credentials. To enhance the...

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How HelloID Can Improve Your Organization’s Security

An Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution is critical to improving your security efforts and can help your organization realize additional benefits (e.g., eliminating wasted time, increasing efficiency, and cutting down on costs). Below is a brief look into how Tools4ever’s cloud-based IAM...

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Balancing simple access with robust security

The days of securing a computer, application or website with a basic username and password are long gone. Hackers are more sophisticated than ever and the value of data is on the rise. To this end, advanced authentication, or multi-factor authentication, is becoming the norm. Advanced...

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Your data sucks

I have worked with the user-related data of well over 100 organizations in my last 5 years as an Identity Management consultant. Without exception or reservation, it has all been garbage in one way or another (sometimes in multiple ways). It may be a bit of hyperbole to refer to it as garbage,...

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Part 2: Mitigating the risk of internal breach

In part one of this blog series, we showed how access governance, in conjunction with automated provisioning and de-provisioning of user accounts are essential in preventing internal data breach on an organization's network. Today we are going to discuss how to take it a step further, and protect...

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Part 1: Mitigating the risk of internal breach

Situation: Threats are commonly internal Companies spend considerable resources protecting against the threat of data breach – and rightly so. A data breach can result in large fines and, more importantly, a damaged reputation. While companies focus most of their efforts on mitigating the risk of...

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