You already know the situation we’re in: we have all been plunged into the world’s largest work-from-home (WFH) experiment with very little time to adapt. This grand experiment has changed the rules for almost every working situation. Workers and companies that already had the ability for effective remote work are finding new challenges, now that seemingly everyone has joined the party. We have been refining the way our company works remotely since we began in 2002. Knowing how to get started, what’s important, and having the ability to reduce friction for your workforce will help you navigate through this time … Read More
Taking Advantage of Our Higher Education AWS Standard Plays (Begin Your Journey to the Cloud)
Is your institution moving to the cloud? Are you adopting a cloud strategy, such as Cloud First, where the institution takes the plunge and jumps in with both feet, or perhaps an Opportunistic Cloud or Experimental Cloud strategy where they test the waters with select projects? Perhaps your institution has instead elected to stay out of the cloud entirely and to simply watch from a distance. Each of these strategies can be appropriate in the right context, but adopting a cloud strategy that works for your institution should be a priority. With any of these strategies, you need to ensure … Read More
Federated SSO, A Primer (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect)
Federated single sign-on (or SSO) is a modern way to solve the problem of having multiple logins between different services and applications. Let’s take a look at three of today’s common federated identity protocols: SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect. SAML The first of the authentication methods that I’d like to talk about today is SAML, which stands for Security Assertion Markup Language. SAML is the oldest of the free main federated identity protocols, with its last major revision in 2005. There are three major players in SAML – the user, the Identity Provider (or IdP) that authenticates the user, … Read More
10g OSSO to 11g WebCenter Portal External Applications Migration
We recently had a customer who undertook an Oracle Portal 10g to Oracle WebCenter 11g upgrade and ran into an issue with their External Applications and users. To give some context to the problem, there is a direct correlation between an Oracle 10g OSSO and Oracle 11g Webcenter portal for external applications but no way of migrating users from one to the other. Migrating from one system to another is never easy, and in this instance there was no mechanism to even begin the migration apart from manual migration of the data. This simply was not an option for the … Read More
IDaaS – Vendor + Product + Feature Matrix – November 2016
As the world of IDaaS continues to evolve at a rapid pace, we’ve put together the latest IDaaS vendor – product – feature matrix for the largest active vendors in the IDaaS space. This information is current as of November 2016 and is put together by a combination of real world industry experiences, documentation reviews and other available information… IBM and Oracle are of note this year for every different reasons. IBM has recently consolidated it’s platform and added many of the emerging technologies into their platforms to offer what appears on paper as the strongest offering, while Oracle has … Read More
On-Premises Identity & Access Management – Vendor + Product + Feature Matrix
As with any packaged, on-premises suite, finding the best Identity Management products for your enterprise is a not a trivial task. This is especially true when different products from different vendors, that accomplish different objectives or services, have remarkably similar (and therefore confusing) naming conventions. To make matters worse, not unlike other COTS enterprise suites, the ‘cloudification’ of these products has begun and many vendors have started to offer a version of these products as a PaaS or SaaS offering. Additionally, many of these vendors also offer an IaaS type deployment of these packaged products in their on-prem form. M&S has … Read More
Salesforce Identity
Many businesses have come to integrate SSO (Single Sign-On) services into their organization allowing their employees to have a single point of login for company products. Traditionally this requires an Identity management service, like Active Directory, hosted on a server within the organization. Now there is another option, Salesforce Identity. Salesforce Identity acts like a traditional service or identity driven SSO, allowing employees to use their Salesforce login credentials to access different services offered by their organization. The best part about Salesforce Identity is that if you already have an Enterprise addition of Salesforce, you already have the ability to … Read More
Microsoft Identity Manager… Coming Soon
The IDM team at M&S Consulting is excited about Microsoft’s upcoming release / update / rebranding of Forefront Identity Manager to Microsoft Identity Manager. We’ve stood up a lab using the latest (as of this writing) CTP3 and so far have enjoyed playing around with the various new features and wanted to share our quick thoughts. Outside of the modernization and support for the latest platforms and infrastructure, such as, Server 2012 R2, SharePoint 2013, SQL Sever 2014, Microsoft has included several new features to add to the product offering. These include Privileged Account Management / Access and Cloud and … Read More
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