Entries from Talking Identity tagged with 'Role Management'
Welcoming Jeff Shukis to the Oracle Blogs network
My colleague Jeff Shukis, who used to be VP of Engineering and Operations at Bridgestream, has started a blog of his own to talk about identity management, role management in particular. In his first post, he has started a deeper...
Delving deeper into Relationship-based RBAC
Ian Glazer thinks that I have opened Pandora's box by talking about the need to bring context and intent into the area of RBAC by using relationships (one of many ways to express context). I think it's a topic ripe...
My Next Attempt at Controversy: Roles and the (ir)relevance of NIST
Well, I think I am done talking about directories now, especially after reading Ian Yip's hilarious recap of the debate, as it were. Having now appeared as a significant bit player in this drama, I have decided to leave it...
Looking Forward to 2008
This is the time of year when everyone rolls out their start-of-the-year predictions. You can see a couple of those here and here. I especially loved Anshu Sharma's take on this popular beginning-of-the-year routine.Predictions are risky business, especially in the...
Oracle acquires Bridgestream
So the worst kept secret in IAM history is officially out. Oracle yesterday issued a long-awaited press release announcing the acquisition of Bridgestream in the Role Management space. Of course, if you have been anywhere near an internet-connected computer, you'd...
The Debate over RBAC vs. Entitlement Management
The folks over at Securent are onto a good thing with the community driven blog they started called simply the Entitlement Management blog. They have managed to get posts from an impressive set of contributors, including Burton's Gerry Gebel and...
Will Role Management become the focus of Compliance?
A few months ago, I wrote a post in which I took issue with the statement that "Role Management will become the focus of Compliance". My objection kicked off a flurry of responses from various folks, expressing opinions that covered...
The "Model-As" Problem
In my last post, I talked about Jeff Bardin's excellent session about the reality of successfully deploying an enterprise IAM infrastructure. During his session, he touched upon one of the more interesting problems that we see in enterprises today -...
Postcard from the Gartner IAM Summit
2 weeks ago I attended Gartner's first IAM summit. Entering an arena long dominated by Burton and RSA, they nonetheless seemed to have a respectable turnout, even if it was mostly people like me curious to find out what their...
Postcards from OpenWorld - I
The last few days, I have been experiencing the spectacle that is OpenWorld. And what a spectacle it is. Howard street is blocked off, covered by a huge tent. Everything, even buses, are painted Oracle colors, and every signal change...
Defining Role Management - Part 3
I received a very interesting observation from Mark MacAuley (http://identitystuff.blogspot.com) in response to my last post about role management.Another thought here - how does an organization engineer out laziness? In a former position I was doing implementations of (unnamed) product...
Defining Role Management - Part 2
In part 1 of this multi-post blog, I laid out what I believe are the various disciplines that make up a complete role management solution. In this post, I will tackle the more contentious discipline - that of role definition.Fundamentally,...
Defining Role Management - Part 1
The topic of role management is always an interesting one to debate. Everyone's take seems to be slightly different; so much so that if you listen to enough people, you end up trying to rationalize a rather broad spectrum. I...
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