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Quantum Secure’s SAFE for CIV Identity Management Solution

Quantum Secure, the leading provider of enterprise software to manage and streamline security identities, compliance and events across disparate physical security access systems, is introducing their new “SAFE for CIV” software solution at ISC West this year. SAFE for CIV closes the physical identity management gap between PIV and non-PIV badge holders [...]

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Windows Azure Opens Active Directory For General Availability As Identity Battle Heats Up

Microsoft has opened its Active Directory (AD) to general availability on Windows Azure, giving developers access to the single-sign-on service for access to the suite of Microsoft services, third-party apps and SaaS providers.

Active Directory is the long-time single point of access to Microsoft Windows technologies. The Windows Azure AD compatibility means customers [...]

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Microsoft Releases SP1 for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2

Microsoft quietly released Service Pack 1 for its Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM 2010 R2) product earlier this month.

The new service pack is currently available to Microsoft’s volume licensing and professional services subscribers, such as TechNet and MSDN members, according to a Microsoft blog post. FIM 2010 R2 is Microsoft’s non-cloud-based [...]

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Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps

Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps

As a result of our effort to better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is announcing changes to the roadmaps of some of the security solutions made available under the Forefront brand.
As part of this effort, the next [...]

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Hotelier Prepares for Rapid Move to Cloud with New Identity Management Solution

Microsoft Case Study: Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010

Hyatt was preparing to migrate its 70,000 information workers to Microsoft Office 365 for cloud-based email and collaboration. It first needed to consolidate its Active Directory Domain Services and automate user-credential management. Hyatt worked with identity and access management specialist FishNet Security to reorganize [...]

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Aviation Company Improves Identity, Access Management with Latest Operating System

Menzies Aviation is a global provider of passenger, ramp, and cargo handling services. Its rapid global expansion through business acquisitions contributed to an increasing number of employees and devices, a growing amount of data, and a complex network—complicating employee authentication, identity, and information access management. Menzies Aviation deployed Windows Server 2012 so that [...]

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Avatier Integrates Its Identity Access Management Software With Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Avatier Corp., a leading provider of identity access management software, today announced the integration of its Identity Enforcer user provisioning module with Microsoft Lync 2010. With this new integration, Identity Enforcer automates Microsoft Lync user provisioning and deprovisioning of Active Directory accounts, thereby greatly reducing risk and optimizing workflow.

Using a [...]

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Identity and Access Management: Filling the Gap in Identity and Access Governance

We’ve entered the age of access governance. Organizations need to know who has access to what data and how they were granted that access. Identity and Access Governance (IAG) solutions address these issues while managing enterprise access. They provide visibility into access, policy and role management, and risk assessment—and they facilitate periodic entitlement [...]

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Industry Trends Driving Identity Management with Microsoft

If you are looking for some information about Identity Manager and the cloud, here is a video with a Microsoft identity manager expert discussing some Industry trend driving identity management. As you probably know cloud is coming as a key piece in the identity and access manager space.

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What’s new in Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2

FIM2010 R2 contains many new features which make it an even better choice for enterprises. During this session, FIM MVP Paul Loonen discusses new features such as the new reporting features in FIM2010 R2 and the updated Password Management options that now allow a larger population to use this feature.

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