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Provisioning/de-provisioning in the education sector By Dave Kearns I’m at the Catalyst Conference in San Diego this week – say “Hi!” if you see me wondering the halls – but the news from the show will have to wait until next week’s newsletters. Today I want to finish something I touched on recently – provisioning/de-provisioning in the education sector. Read full story Dave Kearns is a consultant and editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management.

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Dealing with orphan accounts and de-provisioning Courion’s Chris Sullivan responded to last week’s newsletter on de-provisioning (”Time to investigate orphaned accounts” ) with a note letting me know that the survey result stating, “Approximately 27% of respondents said that more than 20 orphaned accounts currently exist within their organization” was probably an understatement as his consultants typically find hundreds – even thousands – of orphaned accounts once they start checking. He suggests that you might have a lot more than you think!Time to investigate orphaned accounts De-provisioning is the act of removing access for a user’s account while not necessarily removing the account (which most likely will still be needed for a while for compliance auditing and other reasons). Almost all current provisioning software includes modules to de-provision accounts, but that hasn’t always been the case. As I noted in an article about the first identity provisioning application, back in 1999, de-provisioning was in the road map for the second release. By now I’d expected that a) just about everyone would have installed provisioning software; and b) most of those would include de-provisioning as a feature. I was wrong.Marketers mucking up data-privacy efforts, 06/23/2008 Corporate data-privacy specialists think they’re influencing their organizations to safeguard customers’ sensitive personal information but marketers are often undercutting their efforts, according to a new survey. JUNE GIVEAWAYS: June giveaways from Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet Win a Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 from New Horizons; a Cisco training course worth up to $3,995 from Global Knowledge; one of 15 copies of the Sams Teach Yourself Windows Server 2008 in 24 Hours by Joe Habraken; one of 15 copies of the Cisco Press book CCNA Preparation Library, 7th Edition by Steven McQuerry, or a $500 gift certificate from Global Knowledge. Hurry! Deadline for entries is June 30.

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