Tag: Oracle Identity Management

As They Say, All Good Things Must Come To An End

Today is my last day at Oracle, ending an era of my life that began over 10 years ago at Thor Technologies. Back then, I had no idea about the scope of the journey I was embarking on. I had no idea I was entering a space that was going to become so hot and

BT wins European Identity Award for Fraud Service powered by Oracle

Another year, another European Identity Award for an Oracle customer. At last weeks European Identity Conference, KuppingerCole gave their coveted award in the Governance, Risk Management and Compliance category to BT for their Managed Fraud Reduction service. The BT MFR service provides a real time risk assessment of online transactions, thus providing customers the ability

A Brief Q&A on Identity

The intrepid Emanuela Giannetta (Marketing Manager for Oracle InfoSec in EMEA, and the voice behind @OracleSecurity) just did a brief Q&A session with me about my recent experience at Gartner IAM Summit in London and Oracle’s entitlement-centric approach to identity management. I had promised to give her some time during my London trip, but the

Join Us (Me) at the Oracle Security Online Forum (Feb 24)

On Thursday, February 24, Oracle will be holding an online mini conference focusing on security – the Oracle Security Online Forum. This live joint event with Accenture will last from 12:00-4:00pm ET, and will feature a great line-up of speakers and sessions focusing on security trends, best practices, and proven solutions for your business. It’s

When “Trust” Is Not Enough

Computerworld has an interesting article ‘Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad‘ with the even more interesting subtitle “One rogue IT employee can do more damage than an army of hackers“. It’s well worth a read, if only to get a feel for the nightmarish scenarios CIO’s can be faced with. The 3 case

Future in the Clouds? How About Some ESSO-To-Go?

There is little doubt any more that the cloud revolution is in full swing. Enterprises today are adopting cloud-based and hosted solutions for everything from CRM (even industry-specific solutions like this car dealer CRM) to personal productivity applications to business intelligence. Enterprises want the user experience of accessing SaaS applications to be secure, but transparent.

Speaking at Oracle Federal Forum on Oracle IdM & ICAM

The 4th annual Oracle Federal Forum is being held this Wednesday (Oct 20th) in Washington, DC. It’s a thought leadership day focused on the concerns of the transforming Federal government, where you’ll hear some real-world best practices and lessons from agencies, industry strategists and thought leaders. Oracle also uses this forum to provide an update

Building a Strong Foundation for Your Cloud with Identity Management

That was the topic of my talk at OpenWorld this year. Fitting, I think, considering the emphasis that was put on Cloud Computing at OOW this year, starting with Larry’s opening keynote on Sunday. In my session, I talked about how, thanks in large part to the emergence of cloud computing, enterprises are moving towards

Introducing Oracle Security Governor for Healthcare

At OpenWorld today, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Security Governor for Healthcare, a unique and comprehensive security governance solution that helps healthcare organizations with proactive detection and prevention of security and privacy breaches (click here for the press release). Oracle Security Governor becomes the second product we have in the identity governance space, taking

Cloud and IdM Together Again – at OpenWorld

It’s that time of year again – when my blog goes silent because I have been heads down preparing for Oracle’s event of the year. And this year’s OpenWorld is jam packed with all sorts of goodness. The lineup in the Identity Management track is loaded with information, especially for anyone looking to learn more