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Want to know what scares people? Well here's a list of thirteen things that Covisint's CSO, David Miller is scared of, and as an Identity Management professional, I'm right there with him. It's a light-hearted article, but it does give a very good list of concerns which can form the nucleus of that discussion with your CIO / CEO / CFO when they ask, so why do we need Identity Management anyway, particularly when I could be spending the few IT dollars I give you on things that make us money???? ... (more)

Another Great NW IDM Information Source

SAP's NetWeaver Identity Manager (and MaXware Identity Center before it) is an increasingly popular tool for IdM Implementations. One of the current drawbacks of the tool is that it does not have a lot of places that you can go to learn about how to use and implement the tool. Certainly, this blog and the SECUDE Global Consulting Blog have been great public places to read up on the applicati... (more)

SELECTing from the Identity Store

Now I don't know about you, but I've always had some issues with looking up entries in the NetWeaver Identity Management Identity Store. I know there are built in scripting functions like uIS_Get, uIS_GetValue, uIS_sGet, uIS_sGetValue, etc, but they've just never worked well for me. So to compensate, I've developed my own methodology for searching and retrieving items from the Identity S... (more)

Where are the controls

I got this "joke" email from a family member, which I think proves some interesting points in the field of Identity Management, especially where governance controls are involved: Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (ab... (more)