By 2020, more than 30.7 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. On one hand, that gives people access to information all over the world as well as an opportunity to electronize the processes and let the workflow be more efficient. On the other hand, there is a big risk of identity theft, fraud, Read more about How to protect your privacy online[…]
Yet another year is over. 2016 was an incredibly busy year for midPoint. Lots of new midPoint deployments and projects. But most importantly the midPoint itself has significantly evolved. MidPoint is firmly based in the identity governance now. First half of 2016 produced midPoint 3.4 “Heisenberg”. Heisenberg includes a lot of new features. But one Read more about midPoint in 2016[…]
When our interconnection of various services by using midPoint, SCIMv1 protocol and Connid framework was ready, we proceeded to testing. While looking around for services supporting the SCIM protocol we stumbled upon two quite popular ones. Salesforce and Slack which both support the SCIM 1.1 specification but both on their own way with a couple of Read more about Real life story of SCIMv1 and ConnId, Part 2[…]
When implementing a connector for the Midpoint identity management solution, there is a potential to interconnect a broad spectrum of services. Using the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) protocol seems as a road to take. We are also working with the connId framework. It provides a means for building identity connectors in a more Read more about Real life story of SCIMv1 and ConnId, Part 1[…]
Identity management is both art and science. It may look completely deterministic. But too often there are cases that cannot be completely automated and encoded by rules. Sometimes there are cases that nobody expected. Good identity management system should be able to handle even those situations. […]
In its current version, midPoint can easily handle applications falling into “Internet of Things” category. In the forthcoming series of blog posts we will show how. Today let’s go through a brief introduction.
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Evolveum midPoint is a very comprehensive system. It can manage identities, roles and organizational structures. Simply speaking it can manage anything that is at least marginally related to the concept of identity. Yet until quite recently support for one broad area was missing and it was added in midPoint 3.4. Now midPoint can also manage Read more about Services and Things[…]
In version 3.4 midPoint has got a really nice GUI. It is well suited for operational tasks. However, it lacks some features to support development and maintenance of really complex midPoint deployments. Main pain points are perhaps missing integration with git (or other version control systems) and limited support for editing complex XML objects. Because of this we’ve recently created a prototype of MidPoint Development Tools for Eclipse.
Unix/Linux servers can be configured to authenticate and authorize against LDAP server, by using LDAP accounts and groups. With some Identity Management solutions you can put users to these groups, but you need to manage the groups by the native LDAP tools. This is not the case with midPoint! MidPoint allows you to create not only LDAP accounts, but also the groups so it can become the ultimate tool for IT administrators or even for users with limited IT skills, really simplifying the LDAP group management. […]
Sun Identity Manager a.k.a. Oracle Waveset is a software product at the end of its lifecycle. Yet many organizations still operate Sun IDM solution because they haven’t found any reasonable migration path. But now there is a migration path that leads to the most comprehensive open source IDM solution: Evolveum midPoint. In the previous two posts I have described the obstacles and motivation of Sun IDM migration. It is quite clear that major migration obstacles are the cost and the risk. However, we have successfully addressed both of these obstacles. The cost is addressed by the unprecedented deployment efficiency of Evolveum midPoint. Yet it is the risk that is usually the worst issue for any migration of any software system. But due to the flexibility of Evolveum midPoint we have managed to keep migration risk at a very acceptable level. And this post describes the details of our solution. […]