Tag: Tips & Techniques

RSA Conf. Notes: Looking For Practical Approaches to IAM

I attended a very informative session entitled “Enterprise IAM Challenges – A Practical Approach to RBAC” given by Jeff Bardin, the CISO at Investors Bank and Trust. It was a frank, open account of his experience leading a team on an IAM project that took his previous employer from a failed audit to a successful

RSA Conf. Notes: Talking about Account Reconciliation

I attended a session titled “Delivering Security Integration with Compliance” by IBM’s Stuart McIrvine. During the session, he laid out the various governance frameworks for IdM (SOX, COSO and COBIT among others) and detailed how IBM’s Tivoli family of IdM products could be used to implement them as part of an IdM practice. As he

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