HIPAA Audits Moving Along as Planned, Only Fewer

Posted on May 22, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Mid last year, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights announced that they will conduct roughly 150 HIPAA audits in 2012. According to a recent article at HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, 20 audits have completed and approximately 95 remain. While my math skills may not be the best, this clearly doesn’t add up to 150. Apparently, the number had to be scaled back. It wasn’t clear why, so if you know, feel free to let us know in the comments. Continue reading →

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Customer Perspective: Access Review from Hours to Minutes

Posted on May 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Recently our customer Cricket Communications joined us on a webcast to share their path to automated identity and access governance. Cricket is a wireless services provider in the US, operating in 35 states with over 5.7 million customers. Their internal growth combined with complex regulatory challenges required a better solution to handle access requests, reviews, and overall controls. Continue reading →

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Provisioning Ain’t What It Used To Be

Posted on May 14, 2012 by | Leave a comment

I’m sure they meant well. IdM vendors had the right intention when provisioning systems were created roughly 15 years ago. The idea was to help IT automate IT activities; things like user account creation, change management, change request, and role-base provisioning to name a few.

Intentions are well and good, but what they ended up with is another thing entirely. For the most part, traditional provisioning systems have not achieved their intended goals and have actually managed to condition IT professionals to accept that things aren’t going to get any better. Continue reading →

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Three Quick Tips for a Smooth Identity and Access Implementation

Posted on May 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

There are lots of things that can go wrong with an IT implementation of any sort. I don’t think anyone would question this. This is especially true for identity and access related implementations, which rely on active client side participation throughout the process. Not just participation from IT, but also line of business since many of the workflows and decisions are dependent on their knowledge of business processes. Continue reading →

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Customer Perspective: Automating Access Certification in 17 Days

Posted on May 1, 2012 by | 1 Comment

One of the most desired results from any identity or access related project is rapid time to value. Historically, organizations have been subjected to lengthy deployments and never ending process reviews, tying up too many full time employees to make the project financially viable. This customer use perspective will show you how we are breaking the mold.

During our most recent webcast, we were joined by one of our newer customers, Friends Life. Friends Life is the 5th largest UK based life and insurance company. They have 6,000 users and 20 critical applications identified as part of their rollout of user access controls. Continue reading →

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