In a recent Forbes piece, SAP’s Jacqueline Vanacek states a bold claim: Cloud computing will create more jobs than the Internet did because the cloud will alter the entire IT landscape. In the piece, Vanacek touches on the cloud’s impact … Continue reading
Passwords are a problem. The most secure passwords are robotic, nearly impossible for humans to remember and can lead to high IT costs through password resets or, worse, can pose serious security risks as employees take shortcuts to remember them. … Continue reading
The RSA Conference, the largest IT security show of the year, ended two weeks ago, but the conversations that took place are still reverberating. Chris Preimesberger, editor at eWeek, has identified a few of the major themes that are likely … Continue reading
Online identity is emerging as a major theme with increased cloud adoption in business. In his piece after last week’s Montgomery & Co. investor conference, New York Times reporter Quentin Hardy explores identity management from both the corporate and consumer … Continue reading
As enterprises today move more aggressively to the cloud — and as their employees increasingly want to use anything but their desktop (laptops, tablet, smartphones) to access applications — IT organizations have to find new ways to manage identity and … Continue reading
The RSA Conference wrapped up last week in San Francisco. Tons of vendors, journalists and security-minded folks (the Okta team included) converged to discuss the latest trends in online security and how companies can best protect themselves from cyber attacks. … Continue reading
Let’s start with a hypothetical situation: I’m going to hand you an on-premises identity management solution for free. Well, great, but there’s plenty left to do to turn your identity management dream into reality. First, let’s get the solution installed. … Continue reading
A smattering of cloud news from around the Web … RSA 2012 The 2012 RSA conference kicked off this morning in San Francisco. Featuring 19 tracks and 210 sessions, the five-day conference has already seen some major cloud security news … Continue reading
I’ve had a number of conversations with customers and prospects about cloud security recently and have been struck by how divergent people’s views are. Invariably, they fall into one of two camps. One camp, the “server huggers,” thinks the cloud … Continue reading
Check out our roundup of some of last week’s most interesting cloud-related news: Identity as a Service (IDaaS) For his February column for Windows IT Pro, Sean Deuby turned to identity predictions from the most recent Gartner Identity and Access … Continue reading