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?

IGA Cloud or On-Prem – Have You Checked the Plumbing?

A major decision for all software deployments, including Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) deployments, is what platform to deploy to; cloud, on-premise or a hybrid of the two. Many IGA products are available as both cloud-based and on-prem. Some on-prem products can be hosted as SaaS or managed service offerings in the cloud. Some of … Continue reading IGA Cloud or On-Prem – Have You Checked the Plumbing?

IGDM Part 2 – Validating the Proposed Identity Governance Data Model

This article is the second in a series of three looking at a proposed common Identity Governance Data Model (IGDM). This second article validates the model against some common complex applications. This model attempts to address the needs of managing heterogeneous complex target system access models in an Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) environment. The … Continue reading IGDM Part 2 – Validating the Proposed Identity Governance Data Model