Identity Management Series – Termination and Transfer Gotchas Part 3: Terminating Employment vs. Terminating Access

In the previous segments, we focused on special-case transfers that may be hard to recognize. At the macro level, when a user transfers between HR systems, a legitimate

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Identity Management Series – Termination and Transfer Gotchas Part 2: Transfers Within a Department

In the first segment, we looked at one extreme of transfers – a job change entailing a move between HR systems. In this segment, we’ll look at the

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Identity Management Series – Termination and Transfer Gotchas Part 1: Transfers and Multiple HR Systems

In the previous series, we started prepping for the key workflows that make an IAM implementation worth the cost and effort. Implementing workflows effectively is critical to achieving

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Identity Management Series – Workflows Part 5: Wrapping Up

This month, we focused on one of the key functionalities of identity management – workflows. Specifically, Provisioning and deprovisioning (which I abbreviate as de/provisioning) Non-employee management User and

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Identity Management Series – Workflows Part 4: User/access recertification

In the previous segment, we worked through the non-employee management workflows. These are a special-case of user recertification and relatively less complex, making them a good place to

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Identity Management Series – Workflows Part 3: Non-Employee Management

In the previous segment, we worked through the de/provisioning workflows. These are foundational to the non-employee management workflows in that a key objective of the non-employee management workflows

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Identity Management Series – Workflows Part 2: Provisioning and Deprovisioning

In this month’s Introduction, three workflow sets were introduced: Provisioning and deprovisioning (which I abbreviate as de/provisioning) Non-employee management User or access recertification This segment explores the first

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Identity Management Series – Workflows Part 1: Introduction

We started developing workflows in last month’s activity to manage vacancies. Relatively speaking, vacancy management workflows are comparatively simple and provide business-relevant quick-wins, which give credence to the

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Vacancy Management and Hierarchies Part 5: Wrapping Up

This month we focused on vacancy management, shifting from the functions of identity manager to role manager. Vacancy management is difficult to control manually – in many cases

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Vacancy Management and Hierarchies Part 4: Cost Center Ownership

I once talked to a finance manager and asked her why her group couldn’t produce an accurate list of cost center owners. Her response was simple, “I would

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