Fine-Grained Entitlement Reporting with Workflows

A key aspect of identity governance is being able to see "who has access to what". Within Okta you have visibility to user-to-group and user-to-application mappings (i.e. the associations that Okta is managing). These are often called coarse-grained entitlements. But what about the fine-grained entitlements that are normally defined and managed within an application, such … Continue reading Fine-Grained Entitlement Reporting with Workflows →

A Look at IAM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

This is a trimmed down version of an article I published on LinkedIn on Jun 11, 2020 (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/look-iam-red-hat-enterprise-linux-david-edwards-iamdavid-/). For a recent engagement I had to 'page back in' long-forgotten aspects of identity and access management (IAM) for Unix/Linux, specifically the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. I couldn’t find a comprehensive guide to all … Continue reading A Look at IAM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux →

IGA & RACF – How Effectively Can You Manage the Risk of Mainframe Users?

This article was originally posted on LinkedIn on 29 August, 2019 (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iga-racf-how-effectively-can-you-manage-risk-users-david/). Way back in the late 80’s I was a trainee programmer learning all things green-screen, like ISPF, JCL, CICS and Cobol. Colleagues laughed, asking me why I was bothering given the mainframe would be gone in five years. Here we are thirty years … Continue reading IGA & RACF – How Effectively Can You Manage the Risk of Mainframe Users? →