Password-Self-Service Press Release Identity Management Pre-Release #2 December 18, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce the second public release of our 1.2 beta stream is now available. If you have a valid 1.1 license you can use this and run it alongside your 1.1 deployment to preview the new features if not you can still download the 1.2 BETA and evaluate it fully for 30 […] Read more »
Password-Self-Service Releases Identity Management Pre-Release September 25, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce that the first public release of our 1.2 beta stream is now available to all our customers. You can use your existing 1.1 license and run this alongside your 1.1 deployment to preview the new features. All customers are entitled to receive the 1.2 upgrade as part of their ongoing […] Read more »
K-12 Schools and Higher Ed August Program August 6, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter Schools are seeing dwindling budgets each year, staff and heads are having to make the same budget or even less work even harder. With smaller budget sacrifices have to be made and one of the prominent areas that gets the least share of the budget is IT. With the rise in account hacks and compromised […] Read more » higher ed k-12 schools
Security Password Security Tips From a Hacker July 11, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter It’s amazing just how easy it is to crack passwords these days, Nate Anderson from ArsTechnica a self confessed script-kiddie shows in his article just how easy it was to crack 4,000 passwords in the space of a minute! We all know how to build complex passwords: Include mixed cases, letters, number, symbols Change passwords […] Read more » hack hacking password
Feature Password-Self-Service Access Manager on Microsoft Azure June 26, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce the availability of Nervepoint Access Manager on the Microsoft Azure network giving you the ability to have a complete password self service solution in the cloud! You can access the image from the VM depot here and you can follow the instructions here on installing Access Manager in your own […] Read more » azure cloud
Releases New Release Extends Active Directory Password Policy June 19, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce the release of Access Manager 1.1-R9 this week, not only does it fix a number of bugs but we’ve thrown in some interesting little features too. So without further ado here are the key features for this release: Override AD Password Policy Extend your security access policy over that offered […] Read more » Active directory internationalization password policy
Security Uncategorized Don't Be Another Data Breach Statistic June 13, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter Verizon released their annual Data Breach Investigation Report recently which you can find here. It is a great study of security breaches that occurred in 2013 and provides a good insight into what we can expect in 2014. If there is anything to take away from this report its this, don’t be a statistic in […] Read more »
K-12 Identity Self Service for K-12 May 23, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter Security continues to play a critical role in education as K-12 school districts discover new ways of integrating technology into their departments. As some have increased the number of applications and systems the unexpected side-effect is an increased number of accounts, an explosion in password related issues and the threat of identity theft becoming ever […] Read more »
Password-Self-Service Considerations for Password Self Service May 9, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter This is a two-part post giving advice on what you should look for when choosing a password self service solution. Its by no means definitive but should give you the building blocks needed to make the right decision for your organization. During the writing of this article it became quite apparent that we needed to […] Read more »
Security Identity Theft: Protecting You & Your Business April 29, 2013 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter Techgig posted an article titled, ‘How to avoid online identity theft‘ which details some of the ways people can have their identity stolen from simple over the shoulder skimming to more sophisticated phishing scams. The focus of the article is one of personal safety but the identity theft techniques listed, from over the shoulder skimming […] Read more »