Action Identity Blog

Since our blog’s inception, we’ve covered Oracle OIM, OAM, and other identity and access management products. Previously we’ve had guest bloggers from GCA Technology Services lend their talents to feature posts related to training and various IDM training classes. Today we have the pleasure of featuring another collaborative entry by an Oracle awarded GCA instructor to highlight Oracle identity management courses available to you. 

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Lately there has been a large influx of newly minted Identity Management products, and deciphering the overall grade of a product is undoubtedly a heavy undertaking. Simply put, it’s hard to weed the good from the bad. After wading through the different IDM solutions out there, one that stood out was CA. CA’s Identity Management Suite makes things faster, easier, and less error prone than having your IT department do it by hand. In fact, Gartner has consistently positioned CA in the exclusive “Leaders” quadrant for a variety of ranking. With CA you’re working with a trusted name in the industry.

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What do you do when integrating Identity Management with your enterprise and your company’s applications, and there are applications or services that require data that your identity vault does not contain? Often the solution is to put workflows into place to get the data that you need into your directory. When you go this route however, you’ve added man hours back into the provisioning process that cuts into the benefits you see from this kind of management service. As many of you have no doubt already determined, the best practice would be to already have this information in your vault, but where does it come from?

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Single sign-on, or SSO, is a type of access control for software systems to use to authenticate users’ credentials when accessing secure systems. SSO helps reduce password phishing and password fatigue by allowing the users to only enter their password once. This extra form of authentication also supports conventional authentication like Windows Credentials, and allows a company using SSO to reduce the costs of IT help desk calls regarding forgotten passwords. There are many vendors out in the marketplace for Single Sign-on software, but one that is exceptional and easy to integrate into most Windows based systems is Novell SecureLogin 7.

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Local, state, federal law enforcement and criminal justice agencies have started to comply with the recent mandatory authentication policy requiring advanced authentication when accessing the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) database. This system provides agencies with access to information such as fingerprint records, criminal histories, and sex offender registrations to name a few. The advanced authentication that is being put into place requires users to provide two forms of identification, physical and “something you know”, in order to access the highly sensitive information stored in the database. Physical identification would be when a contactless smart card is placed on a reader, and “something you know” would be when the user has to input a password or PIN number.

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