Tag: Audit & Compliance

How Do Governance Controls Fit Into IDMaaS?

Kim Cameron has a vision for where identity management is going, and he has started to lay it out in a series of blog posts, starting with this post on ‘Identity Management as a Service‘ (where he unfortunately reopened the IDaaS vs IDMaaS acronym debate). I think most of us would agree with his statement

Rogue Accounts – Now Legally Challenging As Well

The impact that judicial courts are having on the world of tech has been in the news recently, whether it be an Italian judge ruling that content sites are liable for user uploaded content, or the class action lawsuit that Google Buzz faces over privacy issues. But another legal opinion was brought to my attention

OAS4OS Ships Today. Unix Admins Rejoice!

Intrigued? The guys over in our Directory Services group (part of Oracle Identity Management) have just come out with a new offering which has a doozy of an acronym, even by Oracle standards. OAS4OS stands for Oracle Authentication Services for Operating Systems, software that greatly simplifies the authentication and account management process of Unix and

Selective Delegation: The key to a successful attestation process

One of the philosophies at Thor (that we have proudly carried over to Oracle) is our commitment to building products that deal with the dirty realities of our customer’s deployment needs, instead of living on some idealized plane. Getting there requires a lot of input from our customers. This week, our Product Management team is doing a customer

How you can handle your attestation needs

Attestation (aka Re-certification aka Periodic Review) is one of the latest must-have’s in the world of compliance-driven IdM (if you know of another name it goes by, please share). It essentially refers to the management practice of periodically checking and certifying that only the individuals who need certain access privileges have those access privileges. Here