Privileged Access Management, Privileged Account Management, Privileged User Management or Privileged Identity Management. They all refer to the same thing. That is, the management of elevated or privileged accounts such as administrator accounts within the organisation’s ICT systems. Restricting Administrative Privileges is listed as the 4th most important strategy to mitigate cyber intrusion on the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) (aka. Defence Signals Directorate) publication “Strategies to Mitigate Defence Cyber Intrusions”.
The Password is Dead community and organisations such as FIDO are coming up with far better ways of authenticating electronically than the password, particularly when the level of trust required to transact is not particularly high.
Small and Medium Businesses face interesting ICT challenges. They have exactly the same problems as large enterprise, with far less money available to solve them. This often results in less than ideal security or general solutions, as running the ICT environment often requires general, rather than specific knowledge.
Certification and good practice often go out the door as convenience and a “just good enough” mentality exists.
Thankfully, the new ICT service world can be a welcome relief.
UNIFY Solutions is pleased to announce that GrainCorp have engaged UNIFY to upgrade their Identity Management platform to the latest Microsoft Identity Manager 2016.
The Cloud is here to stay, and enterprises are migrating as much as possible to it at a rapid rate. KuppingerCole claim that “Security is a risk and an opportunity” in the Age of Transformation, and it is clear that as the distribution of workloads and data changes, the nature of data security changes.
UNIFY Solutions is pleased to announce that Life Without Barriers has engaged UNIFY Solutions to implement an Identity Management Framework consisting of Microsoft Identity Manager, UNIFY Identity Broker for Aurion, plus Aurion HR as a source of identity truth.
UNIFY Solutions is pleased to announce that Northcott has engaged UNIFY Solutions to implement an Identity Management Framework consisting of Microsoft Identity Manager, UNIFY Identity Broker for Aurion, utilizing Aurion HR as a source of truth.
UNIFY Solutions today announced that internal testing has commenced for Identity Broker v5.1, including the much anticipated Identity Broker LITE.
UNIFY Solutions is pleased to publish a case study outlining the success of solving a critical on-boarding process problem at Parliamentary Service in Wellington, New Zealand.
UNIFY Solutions is very proud to sponsor the ACT Quality in Healthcare Awards for the 3rd year and we see participation in recognition programs like these as key initiatives of our Health Industry Practice.