Recent Posts by Greg Jensen

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...

Super user accounts are, unfortunately, a necessary evil. It’s just a fact of life in the IT industry that someone, somewhere, has to have the ability to make fundamental (and therefore potentially catastrophic!) changes to key systems. One of my least favourite experiences as a consultant was gaining access to an account though a process that was reminiscent of a spy thriller  – the password was typed onto a card, which was cut in two, with each half stored in a separate safe...

Excitement is building around an upcoming webinar hosted by Oracle Partner, AmerIndia on June 27th. Arun Mehta, Sr Consultant with @AmerIndia, and Sid Mishra from Oracle, will be speaking on the subject of Mobility in the Enterprise and the implications of BYOD has on the security postures of the organization and the steps you can take to reduce your risk.    Online space for this Webinar is limited, so we recomend you register ASAP at http://www.amerindia.net/webinars.php ...

In our previous blog, we looked at the business drivers behind the growth of cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM). These drivers, combined with cultural and technology trends, have made cloud-based IAM more attractive – and, frankly, more necessary – than ever. Now that business has evolved to offer more and more interconnected and interdependent services to a wider range of users, the old models we had relied on to manage identities no longer apply. Our old...

Traditionally when a user is on-boarded into an organisation they are given a desktop password along with a whole host of other passwords to access the required business applications to enable them to do their job. Inevitably there will be numerous associated company information security policies that dictate that passwords should not be written down or shared with colleagues etc. Trying to remember numerous passwords can be onerous on the end user at the best of times and can...

Embracing Mobility in the Workspace using Oracle API Gateway     “In 2013, mobile devices will pass PCs to be most common Web access tools. By 2015, over 80% of handsets in mature markets will be smart phones.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                        -Gartner Research     Across the globe, corporations are...

One of the most significant advancements in IT in the last few years has been the shift to cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM). While the word “revolution” is all-too-often used in IT, arguably it’s the right word to describe the transformation that the cloud brings to identity. Over the next four weeks, we’ll delve into the details of this revolution, including a look at its impact on how you’ll do business, why change is needed, and what you’ll need to know...