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What "Connected" Actually Means in Identity Governance (and Why Most Integrations Fall Short) 

A read-only connection tells you what access exists. Governance requires the ability to change it.  “Connected” is one of the most overworked words in identity. On a program status report, an application is either connected or it is not: a green checkmark or a gap to close. The binary is convenient. It is also misleading. Two applications

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Finding Hidden Threats: How Ticket Overload Is Holding SOCs Back and How Readibots Can Turn Things Around

Hey there! If you’re a CISO, you know that your Security Operations Center (SOC) deals with a crazy number of threats every day. During my time at Innovate, CISO conference in Nashville, I heard a lot of talk about this and how big a problem it is. We’re talking about billions of events each month,

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The Readi Report Vol.1 – ALORICA Identity Management

We hear from our customers and prospects the challenges they are facing with their IGA implementations, the length of time they take and most importantly, the automation is not what they expect because they continue to overwhelm their operations teams with tickets.  Automation and remediation through even the best IGA platforms are lengthy and costly.

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Three Ways Automation Can Reduce Your Security Risk

Security threats are growing continuously.  In addition to hacking and malware, recent years have seen the growth of ransomware and various forms of pretexting.  There are simply too many actors and too many threats for any company to completely avoid compromise. In addition to external threats, security issues are often caused by bad internal actors or by

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Your governance blind spot – hiding in plain sight

First, let’s consider what a blind spot is. Any responsible executive that knows about their blind spot, no longer has a blind spot. So, keep an open mind here. Trust me, you have a blind spot. I have talked with IT execs at all levels. These folks are not just responsible for a secure organization,

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IGA Connectors Suck

Most orgs have less than 10 systems with complete identity lifecycle automation via their IGA. The rest get managed through tickets in their ITSM. I talked with one org recently that had over 200 applications! With 10 automated, that’s only 5% of their org automated. What’s going on? Why aren’t the other systems integrated? The

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Move Identity Forward – How to cut your Identity SLAs by 90%

A recent survey done by One Identity showed that only 8% of companies have fully automated IAM processes. The result? Needless repetitive work being done by skilled people.  When a manual business process can easily be automated, there is absolutely no justification to maintain the status quo. Most organizations that I talk with have SLAs

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Your Identity Processes – Connect More!

According to some recent research by our friends at One Identity, only 8% of companies have fully automated provisioning processes and 70% rely upon manual operations for joiner / mover / leaver events. Yet, despite many downstream manual processes, many organizations feel they’ve ticked the IGA checkbox. So, where’s the disconnect? Let’s start with critical

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How to Free Up Skilled Resources to Accelerate Your Digital Transformation

Success in the digital era requires the right blend of business, IT and soft skills. COVID-19 has escalated digital initiatives into digital imperatives, creating urgent pressure on HR leaders to work with their CEO, CFO and CIO to rethink skill needs as business models change.  The biggest problem is finding people with the right skills.  Every business

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Automating Service Desk Ticket Resolution

Most help desks or service desks have an IT Service Management (ITSM) tool that allow them to manage IT requests, incidents, problems, change requests and service level knowledge. When a new request is created, it is generally referred to as a “ticket”. Quickly handling these tickets directly impacts an organization’s costs and revenues, customer retention,

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Three Ways to Simplify IT Automation for Customer Service Organizations

Customer Service BPOs (Business Processing Outsourcers) are companies that specialize in handling customer queries that come in via email, chat, phone, social media, and other channels. Studies show that organizations who have strong customer service (can solve customer problems quickly) tend to have faithful customers. Because BPOs serve many organizations at the same time, and

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Security and Procrastination – Using Identity Automation to Avoid Pitfalls

It’s 10am on a sunny spring morning and Manhattan is buzzing with crowded sidewalks and yellow cabs flying by at light speed. Fresh from LaGuardia and having enjoyed the brisk morning walk, I open the giant glass door and enter a mega-lobby of fine marble; I’ve arrived. A quick sign-in process, a bag scan, and

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