You've read my ramblings, now listen to them!

You've been reading my ramblings for years here and on SCN. Now you have a chance to listen to some of my thoughts on SAP IDM and a bit on SAP IDM 8 I was recently interviewed by long time colleague and fellow IDM Expert,Scott Eastin for his IDM Masters Interview Series. 

Please take a moment to listen to the interview and support Scott's efforts!

BTW, please let me know if this is interesting and if we should consider a regular podcast / YouTube discussion of SAP IDM, along with topics that you would like to see covered!

Thanks!

IdM Humor

Saw this one and just had to share it...

Happy Wednesday!

Happy Holidays

It's been  the end of a great year of working with Identity Management this year.  Sun, Oracle, Novell, IBM and of course, SAP are all in the mix and doing well.  Companies are recognizing that not only is IdM useful, but a strategic business goal as well.

Personally, I've gone from Project Management, to Independent work, to working with a fine organization, SECUDE Global Consulting.  I've had a great year with them, and am looking forward to more challenging work in the coming year.

I'd like to wish everyone a happy, safe and sweet holiday and New Year.  Even if you don't celebrate a particular holiday, take a moment and reflect (which you should do often anyway)  

On a lighter note, I saw this humorous post at CSOOnline.  Hope it brings a chuckle!

Random Thoughts on IdM

Ash Motiwala and Ian Yip have posted some pretty funny, yet true observations about Identity Management on their blogs lately.  After being challenged by Ash, I came up with a couple.  

Seemed like a fun thing to do right now before the holiday:

• When it comes down to it... all you have is Data, now what you do with it... there's the rub.
• With all due apologies to FDR "We have nothing to fear but the audit itself"
• Again apologies to the late Arthur C Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced IdM Design  is indistinguishable from magic.
• And finally, with respect to Isaac Asimov/Kim Cameron, here are the three laws of Provisioning Systems:

1. A Provisioning system may not injure identity data or, through inaction, allow identity data to come to harm.
2. An Provisioning  System must obey orders given to it by workflow, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A Provisioning  must protect its own database as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

My best wishes to all for a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. 

For everyone else, you be safe and enjoy too!