workforce identity

Wake up. Eat breakfast. Commute. Work. Commute. Eat dinner. Watch Netflix. Sleep. Repeat.  It’s hard to believe that, almost a year ago, that’s what “business as usual” looked like. With COVID-19 still running rampant across the globe, many employees are still working from home while juggling personal responsibilities too. As a result, most daily…

This year, the business community was forced to adapt to a new era of distributed work—and cyber threats have adapted right along with them. Between unsecured home WiFi networks and the rise in personal devices accessing company resources, the opportunities for data theft have risen as teams have dispersed. Implementing robust identity and access…

It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has made this a chaotic and challenging year for businesses. But it’s also increased user demand for digital adaptations and brought the value of accelerated IT practices right to the fore.  Global executives and IT leaders are now seeing that a distributed—or dynamic—workforce can be a more…

It’s hard to believe that only 40 years ago, the preferred data storage format was CDs, Microsoft was releasing its first version of Windows, and the Apple Macintosh was just hitting the mass-market. Against this backdrop in 1982, Bytes was founded. They emerged as an IT solutions provider to help businesses use technology to grow, adapt, and stay…

In our previous posts for this 5-part series on lifecycle management, we offered various best practices you could implement to better manage identity data, lifecycle processes, and access grants. Today, we’ll review the identity-related challenges surrounding audits and compliance, and offer ten ways to gradually chip away at the complexities of…

Last week, we shared some advice for better managing identity lifecycle processes with some key steps for optimizing full-circle identity processes. In this post, we’ll dig into common challenges surrounding access grants. No matter how mature your access management practices are, IT and security teams are constantly confronted with questions like…

No, we don’t have a crystal ball. And in such cases, in lieu of making predictions, it’s smarter to start asking questions. So we partnered with Pulse to ask IT executives from some of the world’s largest organizations exactly what they were thinking, and what keeps them up at night about business and technology after Covid-19. Read on to glean a…

Office spaces have always been designed to encourage productivity—and yet, no single desk arrangement has stood the test of time. Back in the 1950s, for example, the assembly lines at Ford inspired organizations to experiment with open floor plans. When that proved ineffective for white-collar workers, cubicles took hold in the late ‘80s and ‘90s…

In today’s digital environment, identity is at the center of everything. That’s why we’ve made it our mandate to provide customers with an identity platform that gives them the freedom and flexibility to choose. Our goal is to enable organizations so that they can securely adopt best-of-breed technologies, retire cumbersome, legacy systems, and…

Our last post on identity lifecycle management (LCM) covered common scenarios and actionable tips for perfecting your approach to managing identity data. This week, we’ll review some recommendations for automating employee lifecycle tasks surrounding what’s commonly referred to as “joiner, mover, leaver” (JML) processes. Many IT teams struggle…