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Why Access Management Matters In This Day and Age
Access management can be accurately described as a holistic way of managing a secure interaction within a specified system. By managing, I simply mean controlling, identifying, tracking as well as allowing access to authorized individuals. Those who aren’t authorized will automatically be shut out of the system for security reasons. Normally, Access Management (AM) is usually coupled with identity access management (IAM).
With identity access management, the security of the system is intensified in that it can now control different groups, roles, users, roles and so on. The latter therefore compliments access management which only caters for policies and roles. Feel free to check out One Identity for more information about access management and its importance. Here are the top five benefits associated with access management:
Reporting and auditing is made easier
Thanks to the fact that the login information can be stored in the system, it becomes a lot easier for auditing as well as reporting. This feature not only allows for the IT department to know exactly where an employee has signed in from but can also pinpoint the exact location of the area where a hacker is.
That’s in case an employee has the misfortune of having their credentials compromised. The IT people can also know the data that was compromised and therefore come up with the perfect solution to the breach. Running analytical reports has also been made easier thanks to access management apps.
User experience is definitely better
Let’s just be honest for a second. Writing passwords over and over again can be one hectic state of affairs, let alone remembering them. Thankfully, access management makes logins much easier by eliminating the whole nightmare. This is usually achieved by the system remembering your email and password.
Therefore, every single time you may want to get into the system, all you need to do is press enter and you’ll be good to go. The same goes when you have different passwords for different areas of the system. All you’ll need is to go to the area which you want to enter and click in.
Ensures more secure profiles
Just because the digital world keeps developing, such as Snapchat with a new snap kit, it is very important that businesses take access management with a grain of salt. Why is that? Because with every stride technology takes, so does the threats that come with it. But with good access management in place, you won’t have to worry about unauthorized access to your system.
Access management tools increase the level of productivity
Since access management allows your employers to gain secure access from any part of the world, it will become a tad easier for them to work even during their downtime. And when this happens, always expect the level of productivity to increase which is also a dream come true for most business owners.
Your IT costs will dramatically be reduced
With reliable access management installed in your system, you’ll find that most of the things, such as an internal help desk, will be eliminated. You can also have the system do analytics as well as extensive audit trails without having to rely on an IT technician who, you’ve guessed it, will want money for their services.
When all is said and done, access management is meant to improve the general efficiency in one particular system. It is, therefore, an incredible idea for you to not only have one on your system but also make sure that it is from a reliable provider. Having a good system can also come with additional features.
And the latter alone will ensure different users have different levels of access to the system, depending on their level on your organization. Besides making everything else easy within your organization, you’ll also stay easy knowing that your data is always secure from hackers. This is very good news, to say the least.
Once again, it is very important for you to think hard about incorporating access management in your business if you haven’t already. Also as mentioned above, having good access management in place will lower your IT expenditure which will, in turn, save your business a ton of money in both the short and the long run.
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Amr Diab Gets Hacked on Twitter
Amr Diab’s Facebook page has announced that his twitter account has been hijacked by anonymous and now tweeting political.
Update: Amr Diab’s Facebook Page announced that “Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been restored successfully and you can follow Amr’s tweets normally now”
Amr Diab got hacked on Twitter
On Thursday 9th of Jan, Amr Diab’s Facebook page announced that Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been hacked by anonymous and now tweeting politics!
Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of pop music. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle East Artist, three times: 1998 for the album “Nour El Ain”, 2002 for the album “Aktrr Wahid Byhbak 2001” and 2007 for the album “El Lillady”. Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
He is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music He has created his own style which is often termed “Mediterranean Music” or “Mediterranean Sound”, a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as “the new breed of Mediterranean music”.According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, “Nour El Ain”.
In his analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab album, Victor W. Valdivia of All music said: “His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab’s superb skill in creating it.”
In 1997, he won three awards at the Annual Arabic Festival: one for Best Video, for Best Song, and for Best Artist of the Year. Diab received a Triple Platinum Award for the sales of Nour El Ain and a World Music Award in Monaco.
After the success of the previously shared overall analysis of Sherine’s new album “Ana Keter” and her social media presence, we decided to fulfill your requests with more details and additional insights.
The report is from Jan 15 through Jan 31, 2014; however, starting Feb, we noticed that Sherine’s team has enhanced and developed how they engage with fans on Facebook.
Still, there’s more to do; please review the slides below to know what exactly they are missing with recommendations.
Check out the report:
Key take-outs in 15 days after the launch:
- Album gained 11 million views in 2 weeks on YouTube
- YouTube Channel subscribers boosted by 90K subscribers in 15 days out of 127K total subscribers overtime
- Buzz reached 15K tweets/RTs since the launch on Twitter
- How do people talk about the album/Sherine on Twitter?
- People are sharing songs from YouTube & SoundCloud
- +90% positive sentiment on Twitter
- Sherine’s Twitter account is excellent at spreading the news about the album’s success.
- People are tweeting the song’s lyrics.
- Sarcastic tweets about Sherine & few songs (regular) - Almost zero negativity about the album
- Album teasers on Facebook created credibility for Sherine’s page, reflected in the page results after the album’s launch in the next 15 days with 92K Interactions & 312K New Likes.
- The album received tremendous engagement on the launching date of Jan 15. However, no posts for four days after the launch negatively affected the interactions.
Recommendations:
Sherine Abdel Wahab’s Facebook page would have received double or maybe triple new likes and interactions if the improved posts’ quality; please find below the points taken:
- Long updates with no extra value-added will lead to losing your fans’ interest
- The text-only format isn’t preferred, as it is well-known that they generate less reach than other content (Facebook announcement)
- A call to action is essential to generate leads & increase engagement
- Each post has to have its visual, audio, or video so you can attract/engage your audiences
- Understand the situation and act upon it, always be relevant to the time and avoid posting irrelevant content at the wrong time.
- Revise the tone of voice in future activities.
To recap - Overall performance is average to good - Enhance your content formatting - Improve the tone of voice on all networks - Be creative to engage your fans better - Be Consistent - Start your SoundCloud account.
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Putin, Obama war on social media starts with unfriend on Facebook
New stage of the cold war, is it?
The Social media war between Putin and Obama started with UnFriend, this is the action taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Facebook diplomacy with American president Barack Obama.
The unfriending comes after an official White House update about the possibility of a US-Syrian war. President Putin revealed that Obama’s updates about the Congressional debate on a possible war with Syria have annoyed him.
After unfriending, President Putin update status on profile “Something I should have done a long time ago”
Also, He said to Russia’s Pravda News Service “President Assad and I, we are the Facebook friends. We like the same pages, we share pictures of cute women and all that. Obama needs to lighten up on there, it’s not for serious stuff,”
President Obama’s latest posts about the possibility of the war in Syria have been reported by someone and he received a warning from Facebook that he will be prevented from posting on his profile for 24 hours.
He has also commented “Really, Putin needs to grow up. If he didn’t like that [post], he could have just hid it from his news feed instead of creating all this Facebook drama,”
JOE BIDEN “Vice President of the United States” announced to reports that President Obama has signed into his Twitter account to unfollow Putin.
The turmoil generated between Putin and Obama over their dispute on the Syrian crisis. Expanded to reach the social networks
Putin and Obama on social Networks
The question now is, are we witnessing a new stage of the cold war between the two countries, will they continue the war online instead of the military tactics and old spy war?
It’s obvious that social media is really changing the game in everything, and now it’s taking over on a very high level.
Keep an eye on Digital Boom and we will keep you posted with more news and updates on the cold war and even more…
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