According to Gartner, global expenditure by end-users on public cloud services is expected to increase by 21.7 per cent, reaching a total of USD 597.3 billion in 2023, compared to the USD 491 billion recorded in 2022 . Further, Gartner indicates that 75 per cent of organizations by 2026 will embrace a digital transformation approach […]

Despite being a necessity for identity security, IAM solutions also come with a number of challenges that include application distribution, fragmented workforce, issues with passwords, and many others. Further, increasing numbers of identities, data, and cybercrime have been overwhelming the traditional IAM systems, which have manual processes and rely on static data. Such systems have […]

Access to the cloud for running business and managing applications has made life easier for organizations. Undoubtedly, the exceptionally convenient cloud environment helps you identify the data security risks and safely vault the confidential data. Cloud governance is adopted, managed, and regulated to enhance data security to address technical glitches or malicious attacks through identity […]

The modern pandemic-era disrupted the business ecosystem drastically, with enterprises scouting for immediate digital transformation to accommodate the new normal of remote working. This provided an ‘appropriate’ moment for hackers and people with malicious intent to target vulnerable systems and networks, causing large-scale data breaches, ransomware and malware attacks. Enterprises, especially with minimal or inadequate […]

The key to the management of identities, an agile Active Directory (AD) acts as a map between names and values. In comparison to native tools, it is easier and faster for addressing the auditing and security needs of an enterprise, along with ensuring workflow streamlining, providing business continuity and optimizing IT capabilities. In fact, the […]

While a provisioning system enables enterprises to add, modify and delete user accounts on various business applications, it is also imperative for organizations to implement access parameters as per the business requirement. However, the challenge is to select the right access conditions and ensuring that employees are given only the appropriate amount of access to […]

Regulatory compliances and IAM technology go hand-in-hand, as they focus on the same two entities—user and data. At a high level, it includes user’s actions around data, users’ accountability, user’s privacy and data protection. While IAM implementation is often believed to be a high expense task for organizations, it is also pegged as an investment—that […]

The current pandemic situation escalated ransomware and phishing scams, with cybercriminals taking advantage of insecure systems and networks, impacting both large and small businesses. In fact, the average cost of a data breach during the pandemic witnessed an increase to reach USD 21,659 per incident, with most incidents ranging from USD 826 to USD 653,587, […]

Enterprises are increasingly facing application integration challenges with dynamic changes in their business requirements and IT ecosystem. With organizations focusing on implementing diverse applications for their varied needs, they are also prioritizing faster turn-around time and efficient integration systems. The challenge is to create an agile app onboarding process while maintaining the essential security posture, […]

Swift functioning of IAM systems is imperative for workflow operations, regulatory compliance and security requirements. Information security professionals grapple with the challenge of keeping IT system running, and ensuring that IAM capabilities are aligned to serve the business needs. One also has to ensure just right dependence on centralization and de-centralization for extending permissions, certifications […]

With the world moving rapidly to digitization, the information collected and stored digitally is becoming vulnerable to cyber-attacks. As the cyber safety protocols and technologies including Identity and Access Management as well as Identity Governance are becoming advanced. They are stringently monitoring the information, and identities of enterprises from possible cyber-attacks. But the miscreants are […]

Impactful healthcare/hospital workflows depend on swift functioning of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Systems such as EPIC, Cerner, Kronos, and other systems. These applications are created to bring ease in management of health records. However, many healthcare clients have shared challenges in managing identities and streamline accesses on EMR Systems. The source of this problem is […]

Before we move ahead let me break the biggest myth of present times – Serverless Applications is servers on cloud and are to be managed by the cloud server providers. The term “Serverless” Applications gives an idea that administration of servers, which is one of the biggest headaches for IT teams, is not required. At […]

Are you facing challenges while managing identities on EPIC Systems in your organization? Typically, when an establishment relies too much on an application – strategic foresight in terms of aligning the application with business requirements needs to be just on the spot. Many healthcare establishments rely on EPIC Systems for the management of patient data, […]

I had an amazing discussion on my thoughts shared on Hybrid IT with few of you. One important challenge that was identified was unifying identities in a Hybrid setup. No doubt, identities drive IT processes in an enterprise setup, unification of identities thus becomes an important aspect of IT processes. Many a time, unifying identities […]

The business has reached far greater heights in today’s world than anyone ever thought was possible. The same can be said for technology. Put the business and technology together, and you have an escalation of everything – profits, ease of conduct, innovations, better control, and more. Wait; go back to ‘better control.’ Is there any […]

Healthcare in the United States is going through a major shift both in how care is performed and funds are funneled.  These changes keep hospital administrators up at night and the rest of America on antacids.  What’s the number one thing on a CEO’s/president’s mind?  The need to appease all constituencies*, both internal and external, […]

Here’s a scenario: “ABC Tech. reported a breach in its systems, thereby losing some sensitive corporate data. After probing, it came out that this was the work of an employee holding a grudge against the organization. While the employee did his deed on his last working day, pious IT architect of the company was the one […]