I recently read Ben MacIntyre’s latest book The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War. I have read a number of his books and found them highly enjoyable, and this is no exception.  John Le Carre describes this as ‘The

I’ve recently started working with IBM Privilege Manager (from Thycotic), which enables organisations to remove local administrative rights from endpoints, or ‘implement Least Privilege and Application Control. Among other things you can specify the name of an executable file which you want blocked. (In fact you

As I wrote back in May, I’m delighted that IBM Security is OEMing Thycotic’s Privileged Identity Management Technology. IBM Security Secret Server is a brilliant product, and I’m still getting my head around it. One little ‘gotcha’ I discovered: I had all the software installed, or so

I’m delighted that IBM Security is to OEM Thycotic’s Privileged Identity Management Technology. As part of this agreement, IBM Security will now offer a new privileged access management solution, IBM Security Secret Server, powered by Thycotic’s technology.
There’s more information about this at https://thycotic.com/company/blog/2018/05/15/thycotic-announces-ibm-security-oem-privileged-identity-management-technology/ and https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/secret-server

I recently succeeded in putting my Sudoku Solver iPhone app on the Apple App Store, so if anyone’s interested you can find it just by searching for ‘Vaughan Harper’ in the App Store app on an iPhone. It does include the capability to solve Sudoku

If you are installing IBM Security Directory Server on Windows 2012 R2 then ensure you disable User Account Control (UAC) by doing the following:
1. Go to Control Panel -> User Accounts -> User Accounts, click Change User Account Control settings, then select Never notify.
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I recently discovered some useful command line tools available for uploading, deleting and tailing files on the IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (ISIGI) virtual appliance:
1. Transferring connector files to the virtual appliance using scp
As described in the ISIGI documentation it is possible to upload connector

The IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (ISIGI) Identity Broker has an administrative password which appears to be stored in two different places and which sometimes get out of sync. I don’t know all the details as to what is going on under the covers

If you get the error “The program can’t start because libtrc.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem” (like in the screenshot below) when you’re trying to run a command with IBM Security Directory Server (ISDS) on a Windows

I’m now going to be specialising in IBM’s governance product, IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (ISIGI). The product is very powerful, containing a huge amount of functionality, so it will be hard work to get my head around it, but I’m looking forward to