The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Tech Health
Every business relies on technology, even if it does not feel that way day to day. Systems run in the background, people log in and get to work, and everything seems fine, until it is not. Hidden issues within an environment rarely make themselves known early, and that’s what makes them so costly. Examining your…
Securing Student Records After Graduation: Best Practices for FERPA-Compliant Identity Deprovisioning
Student records do not stop being sensitive once someone leaves campus, yet many institutions treat graduation as the finish line for account management. A quiet problem lingers afterward: Former students often keep access to tools and platforms that still hold FERPA-protected information. Schools often notice the consequences only after something goes wrong, a breach, misuse…
Cybersecurity Blind Spots: What Business Leaders Often Miss
Businesses spend plenty of time talking about cyber risk, yet the threats that cause the most damage are usually the ones no one sees coming. That’s what makes blind spots so dangerous, they stay quiet, unnoticed, and deceptively ordinary until they become the incident you hoped would never happen. Why do so many leaders miss…
Navigating the Future of IAM: OpenText’s Product Lifecycle Updates You Need to Know
Identity and Access Management (IAM) in education is at a turning point. With hybrid learning, cloud services, and cybersecurity risks all expanding rapidly, institutions need tools that are reliable and future-ready. Following its acquisition of Micro Focus, OpenText has announced major changes to how it supports and evolves key IAM products. But this isn’t just…
How Smart Tech Budgets Drive Business Growth, Not Just IT Performance
When was the last time your tech budget helped you grow your business, not just fix it? That question stumps a lot of small and mid-sized business leaders. Most IT budgets still read like repair logs: software renewals, license costs, server upgrades, and support hours. It’s a list of things you must do, not things…
ACDI + Access Manager: A New Era of Unified IAM Monitoring and Compliance
How many systems are you juggling just to answer a simple question: Who accessed what, and when? In education, identity management is rarely clean or quiet. People come and go. Students change roles mid-term. A teacher might need elevated access on Monday and have it revoked by Thursday. Tracking it all is usually where things…
Digital Drag: What It Is and How It’s Slowing You Down
You probably don’t notice it at first. Tasks take a little longer, tools overlap, and your team starts feeling stretched thin. That’s digital drag, the quiet but constant friction in your systems, tools, and workflows that slows everything down. It’s not just a tech problem. It’s a business problem, and if you’re an SMB leader…
The Anatomy of a Cyber-Ready Business
When you hear about million-dollar data breaches, you can easily assume cyberattacks only target big names. However, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are squarely in the crosshairs, and many aren’t ready. According to the FBI, internet crime losses hit $16.6 billion in 2024, with no signs of slowing down. Many of those losses came from…
Making K–12 Cybersecurity More Manageable With Identity Automation’s Security Manager
School IT leaders have a lot coming at them these days. More users, more apps, more regulations, and, unfortunately, more threats. According to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), 82% of school districts reported at least one cybersecurity event between 2023 and 2024. That’s a lot of ground to cover for IT teams…
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