The intention and desire to do good and give back to charity is present in almost every business.  While companies take the initiative to get their employees involved in charity organizations such as making donations to a chosen foundation or volunteering at a local homeless shelter, the ability to turn those philanthropic efforts into measurable Read More

The virtual enterprise requires collaboration among employees, customers and partners, leaving enterprise IT departments tasked with building an identity infrastructure that spans multiple user stores and manages multiple levels of trust – both inside and outside the firewall. For large companies, the likelihood of having dozens of user stores sitting around is extremely common as Read More

There is an ongoing debate taking place in the market over whether the best option for enterprises is to stick with their legacy Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution or whether a cloud solution is the only option to consider. At Symplified, we are here to tell you that you don’t have to choose between Read More

What is the Heartbleed bug? Since OpenSSL is the most popular open source cryptographic library and TLS, two thirds of Internet websites were affected by Heartbleed, including sites such as social media, banks, hobby sites, company websites, etc.  This bug allows hackers to access any data you are transmitting to a site, such as your Read More

In the era of the extended enterprise, fewer boundaries exist thanks to continuous innovations in cloud and mobile technologies, and the mix of users whose identities an organization needs to manage is expanding. Identity management is no longer just about employees, but also contractors, customers and partners. Symplified was founded on the principle that identity Read More

I’m at RSA Conference 2014 this week on behalf of Symplified, and I’m making the most of my access to sessions and the Expo Hall to identify trends in security, identity, mobility, and identity and access management (IAM). Here are some of my observations from the first few days. On Monday after checking in, I Read More

Gearing up for RSA, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about what we can expect to see at the show in light of recent breaches making headlines. Target, Neiman Marcus, SnapChat, and – although less visible to the average consumer – the Snowden leak have forever changed the way we think about privacy. The past Read More

A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of being invited to participate in a roundtable discussion about what the NSA’s surveillance means for business and entrepreneurship, hosted by the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship and the ACLU of Colorado at the University of Colorado (CU) Law School. People with many Read More

Microsoft has named Satya Nadella as its new CEO. This offers some insight into the focus Microsoft wants to have under a new leader. The fact that its new CEO has focused on enterprise and cloud for most of his career at Microsoft speaks to the undeniable trend that these areas have been coming together Read More

I’ve seen a pattern emerge among enterprise-sized organizations that are trying to keep up with securing an expanding array of applications. The technologies through which they’re delivering applications to users have changed over the years, and their IT folks have implemented new identity systems to secure those applications. As a result, most large enterprises now Read More