I will never use any closed-source IAM again. You will have to use force to persuade me to do it. I’m not making this statement lightly. I was working with closed-source IAM systems for the better part of 2000s and it made quite a good living. But I’m not going to do that again. Never Read more about Never Use Closed-Source IAM Again[…]
The “insider” has been indicated as a the most severe security threat for decades. Almost every security study states that the insiders are among the highest risk in almost any organization. Employees, contractors, support engineers – they have straightforward access to the assets, they know the environment and they are in the best position to Read more about What can we really do about the insider threat?[…]
Evolveum is a successful open source company now. We develop open source Identity and Access Management (IAM) software. We have legally established Evolveum in 2011 but the origins of Evolveum date back to mid-2000s. In 2014 we are getting out of the startup stage into a sustainable stage. But it was a long way to Read more about How to Start Up an Open Source Company[…]
Evolveum midPoint is a very unique Identity Management (IDM) system. MidPoint is a robust open source provisioning solution. Being an open source the midPoint is developed in a fairly rapid, incremental and iterative fashion. And the recent version introduced a capability that allows midPoint to reach beyond the traditional realm of identity management. Of course, Read more about Project Provisioning with MidPoint[…]
It can be said that Identity Management (IDM) was born in early 2000s. That was the time when many people realized that a single big directory just won’t do it. They realized that something different was needed to bring order into the identity chaos. That was the dawn of a user provisioning system. Early market Read more about The Old IDM Kings Are Dead. Long Live the New Kings.[…]
Identity and Access Management projects are very common nowadays. The interesting fact is that too many of them either vastly under-deliver or totally fail. I have been fighting in the IAM trenches for many long years and I have seen both successful and failed projects. It looks like to me that the IAM projects are Read more about Five Practical Ways to Ruin Your IAM Project[…]
Open source is a game-changer. But there are fields where open source performs better than it does elsewhere. Infrastructure software is one of the fields that is almost ideal for open source. We have observed this for years. Linux and GNU undoubtedly changed the world. As did Apache. And we are seeing more and more Read more about Open Source Infrastructure[…]
All of us know it: ideas that sounds great but they fail miserably. It is a common sight almost everywhere. But during last few months I’ve heard an unusual number of such ideas related to the Identity and Access Management solutions. I know that veteran IAM practitioners are probably already well aware of them, but Read more about IDM Antipatterns and Best Practice[…]
MidPoint has reached the state of a sophisticated open-source identity provisioning system. It has went through many releases and its provisioning and synchronization capabilities were gradually refined. MidPoint is currently the largest and most sophisticated open source identity provisioning system available on the market. It is as big as its two other competitors combined. And Read more about Developing Newton[…]
MidPoint has went a long way over a last couple of years. It started as a bunch of architecture sketches and it went through many iterations over UML diagrams and prototype code in the early development stages. It survived significant changes in platform and technology and emerged out of that as a lean and lightweight Read more about Enlightenment[…]