Below is a list all of the recent entries from Pirean's IT Service Management and Security experts.
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OAuth - smarter than the average protocol
In this post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses the OAuth protocol and its increasing value not only within a social media context, but additionally within business as a tool to support data privacy, Big Data and Single-Sign-On requirements.
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BYOD - The results of the Pirean survey
The “consumerization of IT” has meant that employees are using their personally owned PCs and mobile devices for work purposes, whether they are supported by their it departments or not. In this post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses the results of a Pirean survey designed to ascertain how employees themselves feel about "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD).
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Federations United
In his latest post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how the introduction of a 'Bring Your Own Identity' (BYOI) programme has the potential to deliver significant business value for organisations.
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Bring Your Own Device?
This is the first in a series on posts that will discuss the Consumerisation of IT. This post looks at some of the Consumerisation of IT market trends, as well as some of the things that businesses need to start looking at now (e.g., mobile device management) in order to effectively take advantage of the cost benefits and savings that the Consumerisation of IT can bring.
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Ever Decreasing Circles
Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses recent changes within the Information Technology space and how these have significantly changed the way organisations need to think about the IT services they deliver and the way in which they interact with their user population.
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BYOD - The results of the Pirean survey
The “consumerization of IT” has meant that employees are using their personally owned PCs and mobile devices for work purposes, whether they are supported by their it departments or not. In this post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses the results of a Pirean survey designed to ascertain how employees themselves feel about "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD).
(Read Post)Federations United
In his latest post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how the introduction of a 'Bring Your Own Identity' (BYOI) programme has the potential to deliver significant business value for organisations.
(Read Post)Ever Decreasing Circles
Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses recent changes within the Information Technology space and how these have significantly changed the way organisations need to think about the IT services they deliver and the way in which they interact with their user population.
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Challenges and Approaches for Cloud Based and Virtualised Environments
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams outlines some of the current challenges in extending service hosting platforms to the Cloud.
This post was originally published as part of IBM's Tivoli User Community 'Community Focus' section on Cloud and Virtualization.
Realising an ITIL aligned Service Desk
With hundreds of Software vendors offering ITIL Compliant Service Desks, and each promising 'out of the box' solutions, organisations very quickly find themselves in a feature vs. cost discussion, releasing Requests to Tender based on functional requirements and progressing to proof of technologies. The best approach to realising an ITIL aligned service desk is to start with a business process workshop not a product demonstration.
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Take another box off the shelf
We have a lot to thank Apple for, introducing the world to the ‘App’ and Google have wasted no time in making sure ChromeOS has its share of apps available. Microsoft are doing a fine job promoting the Cloud through their ‘to the cloud’ commercials and Google looks set to lead the way with a Cloud based Desktop.
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Scalable Monitoring For Cloud Solutions
Whilst cloud computing is a viable alternative to expanding an existing data centre, the organisation will subsequently face the challenge of ensuring continuity in terms of enterprise wide visibility.
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BSM and the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
While the consequences aren't nearly so serious, there are parallels to be drawn between Business Service Management practices and the various failings that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. This post discusses the potential issues and suggests a few simple rules to mitigate the effects.
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Unlocking the value of persisted user data using Pirean’s Access: One
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how organizations can increase the value they receive from the user data they manage and how Pirean's Access: One can be used to facilitate this whilst also reducing the need for data synchronization processes and strengthening access management controls.
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Self-Service - Improving customer service, while reducing cost
In this article Pirean consultant Gilles Mahout explains how The Self Service module of Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM) can help introduce significant cost and resource savings to the organization by both enabling customers to report their issue direct to the correct resolver group and processing more services without expanding the Help Desk team.
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OAuth - smarter than the average protocol
In this post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses the OAuth protocol and its increasing value not only within a social media context, but additionally within business as a tool to support data privacy, Big Data and Single-Sign-On requirements.
(Read Post)BYOD - The results of the Pirean survey
The “consumerization of IT” has meant that employees are using their personally owned PCs and mobile devices for work purposes, whether they are supported by their it departments or not. In this post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses the results of a Pirean survey designed to ascertain how employees themselves feel about "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD).
(Read Post)Federations United
In his latest post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how the introduction of a 'Bring Your Own Identity' (BYOI) programme has the potential to deliver significant business value for organisations.
(Read Post)Bring Your Own Device?
This is the first in a series on posts that will discuss the Consumerisation of IT. This post looks at some of the Consumerisation of IT market trends, as well as some of the things that businesses need to start looking at now (e.g., mobile device management) in order to effectively take advantage of the cost benefits and savings that the Consumerisation of IT can bring.
(Read Post)Ever Decreasing Circles
Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses recent changes within the Information Technology space and how these have significantly changed the way organisations need to think about the IT services they deliver and the way in which they interact with their user population.
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Separation of Duties: An Introduction
In the first of two posts, Pirean Security Consultant Vincent Cassidy explains the principle of Separation of Duties and why it should be a fundamental principle in any organisation's Security Management strategy.
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Classifying and choosing a Federated Identity Management approach
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses why different Federated Identity Management approaches exist in the marketplace and why it is important that an organisation fully understands their own business environment, existing relationships and partners before they select a Federated Identity Management solution.
(Read Post)Challenges and Approaches for Cloud Based and Virtualised Environments
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams outlines some of the current challenges in extending service hosting platforms to the Cloud.
This post was originally published as part of IBM's Tivoli User Community 'Community Focus' section on Cloud and Virtualization.
ITIM Custom Participants Explained
In this article, Stephen Swann describes the code necessary to make use of custom participants in ITIM workflow and reveals the power they provide.
(Read Post)Unlocking the value of persisted user data using Pirean’s Access: One
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how organizations can increase the value they receive from the user data they manage and how Pirean's Access: One can be used to facilitate this whilst also reducing the need for data synchronization processes and strengthening access management controls.
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Federations United
In his latest post, Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how the introduction of a 'Bring Your Own Identity' (BYOI) programme has the potential to deliver significant business value for organisations.
(Read Post)Classifying and choosing a Federated Identity Management approach
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses why different Federated Identity Management approaches exist in the marketplace and why it is important that an organisation fully understands their own business environment, existing relationships and partners before they select a Federated Identity Management solution.
(Read Post)Challenges and Approaches for Cloud Based and Virtualised Environments
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams outlines some of the current challenges in extending service hosting platforms to the Cloud.
This post was originally published as part of IBM's Tivoli User Community 'Community Focus' section on Cloud and Virtualization.
Unlocking the value of persisted user data using Pirean’s Access: One
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how organizations can increase the value they receive from the user data they manage and how Pirean's Access: One can be used to facilitate this whilst also reducing the need for data synchronization processes and strengthening access management controls.
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The benefits of Attribute Based Access Control and XACML over Role Based Access Control
Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams explains why RBAC is inflexible and may reduce an organisation's ability to implement fully effective identity management controls in the modern business environment - and shows how ABAC can significantly reduce these difficulties.
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Smarter Solutions for Cloud Security
Pirean CTO, Mike Cartwright outlines why Pirean's Access: One is the logical solution for organisations looking to deploy authentication beyond the traditional data centre model.
(Read Post)Outsourcing
Classifying and choosing a Federated Identity Management approach
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses why different Federated Identity Management approaches exist in the marketplace and why it is important that an organisation fully understands their own business environment, existing relationships and partners before they select a Federated Identity Management solution.
(Read Post)Challenges and Approaches for Cloud Based and Virtualised Environments
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams outlines some of the current challenges in extending service hosting platforms to the Cloud.
This post was originally published as part of IBM's Tivoli User Community 'Community Focus' section on Cloud and Virtualization.
Unlocking the value of persisted user data using Pirean’s Access: One
In this article, Pirean Security Consultant Stephen Williams discusses how organizations can increase the value they receive from the user data they manage and how Pirean's Access: One can be used to facilitate this whilst also reducing the need for data synchronization processes and strengthening access management controls.
(Read Post)Smarter Solutions for Cloud Security
Pirean CTO, Mike Cartwright outlines why Pirean's Access: One is the logical solution for organisations looking to deploy authentication beyond the traditional data centre model.
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Cloud causes blue sky thinking
Pirean CTO Mike Cartwright provides an overview of IBM's Service Delivery Manager (ISDM), an innovative new solution to help organisations provision a private cloud.
(Read Post)Security should not inhibit cloud adoption
Pirean CTO, Mike Cartwright addresses popular misconceptions about securing a cloud environment and outlines how organisations can extend much of their existing security infrastructure to embrace 'on demand' computing power, without compromising the keys to the kingdom.
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