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Archive for December, 2009

Pramatr IdM Launches in 2010

Posted by pramatr on 31st December 2009

New_Year

The new year sees the launch of Pramatr’s Identity Management solution, something we’ve spent the last year working hard on.

It will initially focus on the core problem of user provisioning; user management, resource provisioning, de-provisioning, auditing and upfront risk reporting.

All registered users will get access to exclusive early releases soon and have the opportunity to give feedback, share ideas and thoughts through the forums. For all those that haven’t joined us yet, registering is a great opportunity to get involved in the project and to help in its direction. With your input we can build a product that answers the need of users, focus on solving problems that really matter.

To register visit our website.

From the Pramatr team We wish you all a happy and fruitful 2010 !!

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Sentillion vs Microsoft Forefront

Posted by pramatr on 15th December 2009

REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 10, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to acquire Sentillion Inc., a privately held company specializing in software for the healthcare industry.

Microsoft acquire IDM solutions vendor Sentillion, it seems more from a healthcare perspective than identity management.

Classified as visionaries within user provisioning by Gartner, Sentillion have a good array of SSO and IdM expertise which Microsoft could amalgamate with their own Forefront Identity Manager.

It wont be easy; Sentillion is specifically geared towards the healthcare sector so could be missing a few essential pieces to fit snugly and Forefront also has a provisioning solutions as does Sentillion in the form of ProVision. But to leverage only Sentilion’s healthcare presence, at a time when US healthcare is going through a revolution, and nothing else would be a travesty.

Only time will tell.

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Why Cant All Phishing Scams Be This good ?

Posted by pramatr on 3rd December 2009

Graham Cluley reported on this phishing email today:

yahoo-webmaster

It’s an attempt to source account information from the recipient. Fortunately as Graham points out it’s not the most professional of executions:

1. You would have to not question why the Yahoo Webmaster Team is emailing you.. especially as it wasn’t sent to a Yahoo email address.

2. You would have to overlook that the bad guys didn’t even bother to forge the message to look as though it came from a Yahoo domain

If hackers were as good as this individual we wouldn’t have to worry about identity theft.

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