Since 2012, Jonathan Blackwell, an engineer and innovator, has provided engineering leadership that has put GroupID at the forefront of group and user management for Active Directory and Azure AD environments. His experience in development, marketing, and sales allows Jonathan to fully understand the Identity market and how buyers think.
In keeping with our mantra of Better Groups, Better Security, we look for great ways you can improve your security through better group management. While the amount of work needed to add a single user to a group takes the smallest of efforts, it’s when you make a conscious effort to improve the security of…
Passwords are one of the most insecure security measures today. The same passwords are listed as the most used year after year (which is simply a repercussion of too many systems/passwords), and when they’re forgotten, password resets via the helpdesk have zero validation around who’s actually calling. To simplify the process of password resets, self-service…
In a recent article, we discussed how Password Self-Service (PSS) needs to be managed with a degree of granularity. The basis for this argument is that users with varying levels of elevated privileges should be protected with additional layers of complexity and scrutiny. This allows an organization to ensure appropriate levels security are enforced based…
In a world where organizations need to implement layers of security to protect themselves from the dangers of external attacks, it becomes more and more important to know someone is who they say they are – often on an on-going basis. Compromised credentials via successful malware attacks make even the most trusted of users a…
There’s this quote from a Dr. Who episode that has stuck with me – “We’re all stories, in the end.” It speaks to the finality that nearly everything – and everyone – eventually has its demise and becomes nothing more than folklore. And in IT, this especially rings true. When you hear a name like…
With users having so many passwords – both personally and professionally – and with the ability to have operating systems and browsers remember password on the user’s behalf, it’s understandable that they may find themselves forgetting their password at one time or another. They can use the age-old insecure process of calling the helpdesk, or…
No one really likes to remember passwords. You’re probably in one of two camps – either you use the same password everywhere just to avoid needing to remember a variety of complex phrases, or you, like me, use a password database to store them (in which case, I only need to remember the password to…
In previous blogs, we’ve stressed the need for IT to go outside of itself and embrace application owners, line-of-business owners, and other stakeholders within your user base. These people generally have better insight into the daily needs and changes related to the applications and resources that they use and can therefore manage the access to…
When Active Directory first came out, we were all happy just to have a few levels of administrative granularity. There were the domain admins, a few admins over servers, local admin privileges across all the workstations, and — if you were really cutting edge — perhaps some kind of custom delegation to a specific service…
Groups are the lifeblood of companies and organizations of every size with in their on-premise and hybrid environments. They are the foundation for security and accessibility to resources and email functionality. The challenge is keeping them updated and current after they are created. In many cases, IT is tasked (via tickets) to add and subtract…