Adventures in identity management
The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who has been, not particularly enthusiastically, dragged into an identity project from her usual role of security architect. She said they were starting the project the way everyone does: by examining the onboarding process. “Such a bad place to start,” I heard myself blurting out, “……
Last week I had the great pleasure in talking to Charmaine McGowan of the Women Count podcast, and she’s published it just in time for International Women’s Day. We talked about women in IT and some of my own experiences, including how I first discovered MIIS and identity management, and of course my memoir IT Grrrl. You can listen…
Over the last couple of years I, like plenty of other people, had far too much time to think, and dwell, ruminate, and ponder. I now have something to show for it: a completed, edited and reviewed memoir. I don’t have a publisher yet – that’s the next step. In the meantime, I am trying…
In the last couple of weeks I’ve “attended” two conferences from the opposite side of the planet, in virtual mode. These were The Experts Conference (nice to see it back after Quest’s re-emergence from the Dell Years) and the European Identity and Cloud Conference. For what it’s worth, here are my reflections on the experience….
I am in the process of re-writing my documentation scripts, which are somewhat different to the MS MIM Config Documenter, in that mine are designed to run on a workstation, and produce documents in Word format. Where they are much the same however, is long lists of configuration objects by object type, listing their attributes…
I’ve just posted an updated version of my PendingExports.ps1 script here. The script parses the pending exports XML file produced by csexport.exe and produces single- and multi-value CSV files that you can import into Excel (split on the semi-colon). I’ve been tinkering with this script for years. This one now includes all current attribute values…
After many years automating my MIM solutions with Event Broker/UnifyNow, I’m implementing a solution with Lithnet AutoSync. The result is the same event-driven sync as I’m used to, but I’ve had to get used to the different way AutoSync works. I always liked how Event Broker allowed me to integrate PowerShell scripts with run profiles,…
I’ve been helping a customer along the path towards a proper IAM solution, which has involved a lot of data clean-up, as it so often does. Criteria groups in MIM can encourage data quality as users don’t get the groups they need if their attributes aren’t correct – so I thought, how about getting them…
I have just completed a product selection exercise with a customer who has past experience of a failed solution with one of the Big Vendor products. In doing this I found it useful to refer to the Gartner IAM Maturity Model, because what is the use of fancy (/expensive) features if you don’t actually have…
I’ve blogged about sources of truth, and specifically what makes a good one, before (in 2012 and again in 2016) but I’ve recently thought about an important feature of a SoT that I hadn’t included on my list before. So to recap, a good source of truth: is probably one of a number of sources…