George Hulme

As we’ve covered in earlier posts based on events at the recent Navigate ’16 conference, the enterprise adoption of cloud technologies is accelerating. One such company that is rapidly adopting cloud computing is Weight Watchers. As Paul De Graaff, head of security and compliance at Weight Watchers, said during the Navigate ‘16 Identity Panel, by the end of this year...

I’m excited to be at SailPoint’s fourth identity governance conference, Navigate ’16, taking place this week at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin. Navigate is one of the largest gatherings devoted to enterprises using identity governance to mitigate risk and manage an ever-increasingly complex set of regulatory compliance mandates.   Throughout the next few days, I’m looking forward to a...

There are many reasons why organizations begin their identity management programs. For some, it’s about reducing the costly manual processes associated with onboarding, managing, and de-provisioning end users. For others, it’s about more effectively managing regulatory compliance demands and improving security. Almost everyone cites improved user experience as a top motivation to automate provisioning, identity management, and move to single...

When it comes to compromising user accounts, not much seems to have changed in thirty-three years. That was one big takeaway from the Anatomy of a Hack presentation by Darran Rolls today at Navigate 2016, chief technical officer and CISO at SailPoint. The other takeaway: if enterprises had the right processes and tools in place, they could be much more...

Navigate ’16 was a fantastic gathering last week. There was a lot of excitement around identity, and I met many terrific attendees and learned quite a bit during the show. One of the things that surprised me is how drastically the identity management landscape has changed over the years. I’ve been writing about information security, and a big part of...