Recent Posts by Greg Jensen

In our last post, we walked through a handful of practical tips and tricks to fine tune your Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 deployment.  This week we look at a real life case study, focused on Oracle Directory Services, where we applied our pragmatic approach and solutions. Case study: a multinational financial services corporation.  With presence in over 200 countries, this financial services company enables consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments to...

According to a recent survey by IDG Research, 40 percent of respondents felt that a fragmented reactive approach to security left them more vulnerable. More than 35 percent felt that their organization was reactive to sensational news about security threats. To better align IT security resources with risk, organizations will need to refocus on strategic assets Join us for a Webcast with Oracle Chief Security Officer, Mary Ann Davidson and CSO magazine to learn how an...

NEC Australia is back with Part 2, in their two part series with key leaders from the Oracle Identity Management product team. Host Larry Samuels of NEC Australia takes us into the topic area of "Identity Governance Key Insights".  This includes key information on point-in-time audits and their use as a baseline, as well as steps your organization can take to minimize your risk by better understanding the complexity of your identity enviroment.  To view this video, click HERE  ...

Join NEC Australia as they host a Roundtable discussion with key members from Oracle, to discuss the Key Identity Management Trends. Host Larry Samuels of NEC Australia leads this conversation with experts in the field of Identity Management to discuss how the landscape is changing and evolving to encompass the new demands of Cloud, Mobile and regulatory compliance.  With him are Amit Jasuja, Sr Vice President of Identity Management at Oracle Corporation, to help us navigate...

As promised in last week’s post, today we will go into tuning specifics and address well proven tricks of the trade, used by IAM guru’s to maximize your solution while addressing the requirements of global organizations.   In this post we will use a specific, anonymous project example to walk you through the process, specifically: Setting the Stage: Establish Service Level Agreements and Critical Project Metrics In our example, the goal was to support page load times for OIM...

Today, technical requirements for IAM are evolving rapidly, and the bar is continuously raised for high performance IAM solutions as organizations look to roll out high volume use cases on the back of legacy systems.  Existing solutions were often designed and architected to support offline transactions and manual processes, and the business owners today demand globally scalable infrastructure to support the growth their business cases are expected to deliver. To help IAM...

In our last three posts, we’ve examined the revolution that’s occurring today in identity and access management (IAM). We looked at the business drivers behind the growth of cloud-based IAM, the shortcomings of the old, last-century IAM models, and the new opportunities that federation, identity hubs and other new cloud capabilities can provide by changing the way you interact with everyone who does business with you. In this, our final post in the series, we’ll cover the...

It is true that Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-on (Oracle ESSO) started out as purely an application single sign-on tool but as we have seen in the previous articles in this series the product has matured into a suite of tools that can do more than just automated single sign-on and can also provide rapidly deployed, cost effective solution to many demanding password management problems. In the last article of this series I would like to discuss three cases where customers...

In today’s interconnected world, we’re being forced to re-think what identity means and to adopt entirely new models for managing it. One thing’s for sure: it’s no longer confined to inside the walls of the enterprise. The lines between internal and external data ownership are blurring. In this, our third post in the series, we’ll delve a bit deeper into what these external identities look like to help us understand the implications for IT. Let’s start by reviewing the old...