With the deployment of QBE’s identity management solution across the United States and the implementation of Dimension Data Global’s identity management solution in South Africa, UNIFY’s Identity Broker is increasing its penetration of international markets and dramatically increasing the efficiency and supportability of complex identity management systems.
UNIFY Solutions has launched its Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Graduate Program for Financial Year 17 (FY17) and is seeking applications from IT and Computer Science Graduates interested in a Software Development career involving client facing responsibilities.
Brandon Murdoch, Principal Engineer in Microsoft’s Identity Engineering Group, is a leading visionary of Microsoft’s Azure AD B2C platform. Fresh from his experience of ensuring the success of the Irish MyGovId project, visited Australia last week at the request of UNIFY Solutions’ Chief Technology Officer Shane Day.
UNIFY Solutions Chief Financial Officer, Peter George, announced this week that UNIFY has opened an office in Darwin to provide local Identity, Access and Security services.
UNIFY is proud to announce our addition to the New Zealand Government’s ICT Security and Related Services Panel. The purpose of the panel is to provide all New Zealand government agencies with streamlined access to highly qualified specialist security service providers to facilitate the continuous improvement of security and privacy standards across the entire public sector.
UNIFY Solutions is pleased to announced that Identity Broker LITE has been renamed to Identity Broker Plus. Identity Broker Plus is UNIFY’s lightweight black-boxed synchronization and provisioning engine, enabling low cost identity management either in the cloud as part of a managed service offering or on premises.
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.