Federated identity for organizations that have never had it
A primer on federated identity for organizations still managing accounts in 12 different systems. What changes and why it matters.
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Engineering
Security
The vendor risk question nobody asks
Vendor risk management has become a checkbox exercise. Here is the question that actually changes the answer.
Networking
Picking a managed firewall vendor
Firewall vendor marketing is a sea of acronyms. Here is what to actually evaluate.
Engineering
Designing internal tools that people will actually use
Internal software lives or dies on adoption. Most of it dies. Lessons from building tools that people actually use.
Public Sector
County IT and the federation question
Counties wrestle with whether to federate IT across departments or keep them separate. There is no universal answer, but there is a useful framework.
Managed IT
The first six months of an MSP relationship
The first six months of an MSP relationship is more about establishing trust than fixing problems. Here is what good looks like.
Engineering
What we look for in a software project before we say yes
Not every software project should be built. Here is the discovery conversation we have before we agree to build something.
Cloud
Storage that lasts: ten-year archive strategy
Most storage strategies are good for two or three years. A different strategy is required for data you need to keep for a decade.