I am very proud to announce that ActiveRoles Server 6.7 and Quick Connect 4.7 become generally available (GA) today. Look for the new product to be on our download servers over the next several hours. As with all previous releases – this release has several building blocks that when exploited will have a huge impact on [...]
A little earlier today I recieved the GOLD code for ActiveRoles Server 6.5, the next release in our wildly popular provisioning and administration platform. The public release is still a little way off, but it won’t be long now and the GOLD code will be used to perpare all the teams in Quest for unleashing [...]
Earlier today I recieved the GOLD build of ActiveRoles Self-Service Manager 2.0 from development. This will be the build that is made public over the next week or so… stay tuned for release announcment. The part that I am most excited about is the area called My Access. My Access represents an addition to This page displays the [...]
As we approach the release of ActiveRoles Server 6.5 I wanted to take a moment and let some of you know what changes we are making to the platform. Our goal for this release was to provide more out of the box functionality as well as make it easier for third parties to leverage ActiveRoles [...]
Most of the directory owners to which I speak, have for a number of years, been living with legal or regulatory compliance. Most have followed a predictable pattern of first sweating out their initial audit then later rationalizing better ways to implement whatever compliance policy to which they must adhere for sustained compliance. First Audits are [...]
On Friday I posted part 1 of the additional details about how Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration will provision SharePoint. This post, Part 2, will provide some additional details on the SharePoint Attestation and Remediation aspects of our solution. SharePoint Attestation: For customers who own ActiveRoles Server and ActiveRoles Self-Service manager, this new [...]
Since I mentioned our work on SharePoint in may (see http://www.bobbobel.com/teched-day-2-sharepoint-and-ad-groups/) I’ve had a lot of request for more details. We have come a long way in the development cycle and so I wanted to share some details about our plans for a public beta that will happen in about one month’s time. In August [...]
Most legal or regulatory requirements simply state that both Access Controls and Attestation are required for an audit, but they don’t specify if those controls are to be paper based or part of an electronic workflow. Many organizations spend thousands of hours building a paper based set of controls and attestation process only to be [...]
First there is no built-in mechanism to enforce an attestation policy or help perform the access reviews. Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Active Directory use groups as the basic mechanism to control access to resources, and most non-Microsoft operating systems and directories use them as well. Because groups are universally accepted as the method by [...]
Attestation describes any certification review process where an individual swears to or witness/confirm something important. This term is almost universally used to describe a review/certification process that requires resource owners to verify their authorized users during on an on-going basis. This on-going process Attestation usually provides an organization with a measure of protection from liability [...]
