A sweep of M-Tech's ID mgmt. suite

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
07/27/05
Today's focus: A sweep of M-Tech's ID mgmt. suite

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* What does M-Tech offer in the identity mgmt. space?
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Today's focus: A sweep of M-Tech's ID mgmt. suite

By Dave Kearns

While I was in San Diego for the Catalyst Conference earlier
this month, I kept running into Idan Shoham, CTO and co-founder
of M-Tech Technology. It could be that the weather in San Diego
was gorgeous, and Shoham lives in Calgary, Alberta (where summer
usually comes on July 7. In the afternoon.). So we both headed
to the outdoor verandah near the meeting rooms, or he may simply
have been stalking me.

In either case, Shoham wanted me to understand that M-Tech was
much more than a one- or two-product company these days. For a
number of years, M-Tech was known for its P-synch tool - a
password synchronization service that has slowly evolved to a
full-fledged password management application featuring
self-service password reset, help desk password reset and
simplified administration of other authentication factors, such
as hardware tokens and biometrics. For the past few years,
M-Tech has also offered ID-synch, an enterprise provisioning
product. Now, though, the company has gone all the way and is
offering a fairly complete identity management suite called The
M-Tech Identity Management Suite (Canadians aren't really known
for their subtlety!).

The suite consists of six apps/services - P-synch, ID-synch and
the following:

* ID-Certify - an enterprise compliance management that
  addresses the problem of identifying and removing excess access
  rights.
* ID-Access - a group management service for most platforms that
  support the concept of "groups." It enables users to browse for,
  and request access to, network directories through an intuitive
  Web-based interface. ID-Access can administer user access to
  folders, printers, distribution lists and other network
  resources.
* ID-Discover - an automated ID discovery and reconciliation
  product. It prompts users to enter their various login
  ID/password pairs into the system, and then builds a database or
  directory of user profiles.
* ID-Telephony - An enterprise password management software for
  use via the telephone. It allows users to reset their own
  passwords after authenticating to an interactive voice response
  (IVR) system.

When you browse over to the M-Tech Web site
<http://www.mtechit.com/> to learn more about these products
(and I hope you will) be sure to download a copy of Shoham's
white paper "Beyond Roles: A Practical Approach to Enterprise
User Provisioning"
<http://www.idsynch.com/docs/beyond-roles.html>.

While Role-based Access Control (RBAC) is important, too often
it seems that company's with 1,000 users want to define 1,500
roles. This paper will help you to understand the importance of
roles and their uses as well as other methods for ongoing
control of user access requirements.

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. 2005 Salary Survey
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2. Cisco to acquire Sheer Networks for $97 million
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv3880>

3. Verizon joins managed security game
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv3881>

4. Schools battle personal data hacks
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv3882>

5. Help Desk: NAT firewall
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv3883>

Today's most forwarded story:

Verizon joins managed security game
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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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driving and enabling the evolution of the enterprise WAN and how
the enterprise WAN can become adaptive to support these trends.
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