Identity Automation Blog

Top EDU Blog Posts You Loved in 2015 and Trends We Saw

For us here at Identity Automation, we witnessed amazing growth in the education tech sector this year. It’s been quite a ride... from North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction’s roll out of its cloud entity platform to our irrefutable support of the Student Privacy Pledge.

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What Would James Bond Do? Security Measures Fit for 007

Photo by Ludovic Bertron

James Bond is known for impeccable taste in clothes, cars and cocktails. Not to mention, cool gadgets and tricks up his sleeve like wristwatch lasers and passenger ejector seats. Along with the style and grace, keeping data safe and intelligence top secret is still top of mind for Bond.

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The Password is Dead and Other 2016 Security Predictions

You could say 2015 was a house of horrors when it came to security breaches -- from high profile corporate hacks, stolen identities of 4 million federal employees, to a database breach exposing the names, genders, and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids.

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10 Best Freemium Education Apps of 2015 For Teachers

In a previous post, we discussed about understanding how, and if, new educational apps align with your school’s data and student privacy policies. With the overwhelming amount of educational apps currently available and new ones popping up everyday, it can sometimes be difficult to shuffle through them to find those that meet the teacher’s need and also provide the security needed to protect the personal information of the teachers and students using them. With all that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of top ranked educational freemium applications that we came across in the marketplace this year.

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The Best Education Apps of 2015 - What You Need to Know


Whether you’re a teacher or an IT admin, you’ve probably seen a number of articles and blog posts recapping the best new apps for the classroom released in 2015. Since we speak so often with schools around the country, we’ve heard a lot about all these apps -- good, bad and otherwise. We also realized there’s something far more important to convey to you as you look for potential apps to use in the classroom.

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Identity Automation Named a Finalist for 2016 SC Magazine Awards

The 2016 SC Magazine Awards are coming up in March and Identity Automation has been nominated as a finalist in the Best Identity Management Solution category.  The awards program has over 30 categories and also represents the very best players of innovation, of leadership and of passion.

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User Identity vs. Device Identity

Last week, I wrote a post about how with the proliferation of the Internet of Things, “things” within an organization - those smart connected devices that are able to think on their own - will emerge as insider threats in the future. At the end of that post, I said that things will eventually become another identity we will have to secure and manage.

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“Things” as Insider Threats



In the past, we’ve talked a lot about
rogue employees and how they pose an internal threat to organizations if their identities aren’t properly managed. Last month, Troy discussed them again, building on our rogue employee archetypes by adding a few others to the list.

Yet as the Internet of Things continues to grow from a concept into something more tangible, I can’t help but think that “things” could eventually pose an internal threat to organizations as well.

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Attention Amazon Shoppers: Enable Two-Factor Authentication Today


With the upcoming holiday shopping season, make sure to beef up your security preferences on your Amazon account. The online retail giant has given users the option to
enable two-factor authentication (or 2-step verification) on their accounts. Mobile-friendly ecommerce sites like Amazon’s have made us click-happy, but also easier for hackers to obtain your personal information, credit card numbers and passwords saved in your favorite internet browser.

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Rise of the Rogue Employees

Yes, this post’s title is a little dramatic. Chalk it up to my excitement for next month’s release of the latest Star Wars installment, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Revenge of the Rogues seemed way too dramatic and not at all accurate (little bit of trivia for you, Revenge of the Jedi was the original planned name for Star Wars Episode VI) and The Rogues Strikes Back is probably even worse. 

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