ViewDS Identity Solutions is pleased to announce the general availability of ViewDS v7.5. The new version of ViewDS includes several major enhancements, bug fixes, and performance enhancements including: Import and export of XACML policy is now available in the ViewDS Management Agent (VMA), providing the flexibility to migrate access controls between systems (from a test [...]
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure I used to hear this a lot growing up. But being the kid that I was, I didn’t really understand it’s meaning until I became an adult. Ask yourself about issues that you’ve had specifically in IT. [...]
MPS's are a bigger target than ever for cyber attacks due to the nature of their business, and the clients they serve. MSP Overwatch™ provides an essential service to MSP's by allowing them to review, document, and prove their internal controls and continuously track and improve their own security posture. Built by security professionals [...]
Risk: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly The world is simply riddled with danger and mystery. On the one hand, it can be fun and exhilarating. Taking your first climb, starting a new job, or changing careers. All have fun and exciting levels of risk. [...]
Natural Disasters and Global Outbreaks Bring Security Risks Natural disasters and global outbreaks, every year we see more of them. But, this blog isn’t about climate change, science, health, or whether you believe in any of it. Nope, today we’re focusing on what happens afterwards. That [...]
ViewDS is pleased to announce that John Manley, CISSP is coming onboard to lead the US market as President, North America. John brings almost 20 years of technical and executive leadership experience with a strong focus on cybersecurity. John will continue to develop ViewDS’s ongoing expansion into the US market with a heavy emphasis [...]
I Don’t Know Who You Are, But I’m Going To Help You Anyway... Being a Managed Service Provider is challenging. To be a viable business you need to provide excellent service, keep things running lean, attract talent, and stay on top of technology trends and they're [...]
ViewDS CTO Gil Kirkpatrick was recognized today by Microsoft for his contributions to the technology community with his 15th consecutive Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. "It's a great recognition for doing something I like doing anyway." Kirkpatrick said. "With all of the changes in identity and security technology, there's no shortage of people who have [...]
Facilitating Machinery-of-Government Changes A recent federal election in my home country has reminded me of the disruption and work load on IT resources that can arise from organizational changes in governments and in complex enterprises. Inevitably a change in government leads to a reshuffle of the [...]
ViewDS Identity Solutions is pleased to announce the general availability of Identity Bridge 1.3. The new version of Identity Bridge includes several bug fixes, performance improvements and new features, including: Improvements in LDAP search performance Delta database performance improvements Addition of a new web API connector for source and target systems For a complete list [...]
Passwords Must Die! Identity is a core component of cybersecurity, and as such I tend to pay attention to security breaches and the various exploits that underlie them. The picture is not pretty. Just considering the top 20 breaches in 2018, we see that roughly 2.9 [...]
Hybrid Identity Conference: All Tech And No Marketing A lot of you will remember (fondly I hope) the Directory Experts Conference (DEC) we ran when I was at NetPro. DEC was a technology education and networking event focused on Microsoft identity technologies like Active Directory, ADFS, [...]
The first, and arguably most important component of your cloud identity system is the identity and attribute store. It forms the heart of any identity system, whether it be a cloud-based or on-premises application. So what should you look for in a cloud identity store? Here are 13 questions we think you should be asking: [...]
Leading Identity, Directory, and Security Professionals to Convene and Network at Premier Industry Event Boise, ID (Oct 30, 2018) – Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO, ViewDS Identity Solutions will speak about the next improvement in security for OpenID Connect at the second annual Hybrid Identity Protection Conference in New York City on November 6. The Hybrid Identity Protection Conference [...]
The term “cloud computing” has been around for quite a while, at least as far back as 2006 when Amazon started promoting their “elastic compute cloud”, or what is now know as EC2. [...]
