Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by Jackie Gilbert
Beginning in 2010, energy producers and distributors face a looming challenge – to become “auditably compliant” with the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards by the July 1, 2010 deadline. Developed by NERC, an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system in North America, and given the force [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by SailPoint
We recently conducted our third Market Pulse Survey, which focused on the key drivers of access certifications and how organizations ensure their access privileges align with business policy. According to the 150 respondents, including many readers of this blog, there is clear evidence business users involved in these processes don’t fully understand what they are [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Kevin Cunningham
Despite the economic challenges, this has been a record year for SailPoint as we’ve doubled our customer base and expanded into Europe and APAC. As we look forward to 2010, we have been reflecting upon the recession and how it will impact next year – particularly in regard to how companies consume, purchase and view [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
Last week, the SailPoint crew gathered in force at the Gartner IAM Summit in beautiful San Diego. While the show was a bit smaller than last year’s event in Orlando, there were lots of opportunities for lively interaction with analysts, partners, and customers. One of the best aspects of shows like this is the high-quality [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2009 by Kevin Cunningham
This week commemorates Dave Kearns’ 10th anniversary writing Network World’s Identity Management newsletter. As a faithful follower over the past decade, I’m sending hearty congratulations to Dave for his feat. Keep those insights coming! Dave’s column this week led me to reflect on how the IdM market has changed over the last 10 years. In [...]
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Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
One of the things I enjoy most about Burton Catalyst is the chance to hear first-hand from client organizations about their identity management deployments. For the most part, these sessions deal honestly with issues and challenges, are relatively hype-free, and focus on the pragmatic vs. the visionary. This year’s Catalyst featured an interesting set of [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
Last week, I was out in beautiful San Diego for the annual Burton Catalyst Conference. Despite the slow economy, the conference was very well attended – attesting to the attendees’ level of interest and quality of information delivered by Burton. This year’s identity track was kicked off by Bob Blakley, who talked about the evolutionary [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Darran Rolls
Building on Mark’s post from earlier this week, I want to add that I think the industry needs to get out of the mindset of thinking of “the business of identity” as an IT tools problem. For sure, provisioning has the potential to provide a consistent transactional “bus” for the identity change activity. But today’s [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2009 by Mark McClain
Last week, I was very pleased to see Burton Group publish a report entitled “Access and Identity Governance: Leading to Transparency and Visibility.” The report, authored by Gerry Gebel, describes how an access and identity governance layer has emerged to address enterprise needs for greater transparency, visibility and business controls. The report is notable in [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2009 by Kevin Cunningham
Most of us were surprised yesterday to hear Oracle’s intentions to acquire Sun. What does this announcement mean for the IdM space? While Oracle has taken out one of its chief competitors in the IdM suite business as a by-product of the acquisition, it has done so at the cost of great confusion to both [...]
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