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Re: SECURITY Digest - 2 Nov 2009 to 3 Nov 2009 (#2009-251)
From: "Mark I. Berman" <Mark.Berman () MCLA EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:34:46 -0500
As people have stated, the reasons for moving from e-directory to AD have to do with integration and standardization rather than security and TCO. My personal opinion is that you can't justify the move on the basis of security and/or TCO becuase AD is not as secure and will have a higher long term TCO. I'm on my second institution running e-dir as the primary directory store and it has much better security features, is easier to manage (although familiarity could have something to do with that), and it just runs. At my previous institution we brought up a parallel AD environment synced with Novell Identity Management services and the sync ran very well. Even with that there were things about the design of AD that made it more complex to manage. I recognize that AD is taking over and that we'll have no choice but to migrate at some point but I feel the same way about this that I did about the migration from VMS to Unix and Windows: we're abandoning a technically better system because the marketplace is forcing us to. The winner is always the best marketer not the best engineer. - Mark -- Mark Berman, Chief Information Officer MCLA - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 375 Church Street, North Adams, MA. 01247 413-662-5062 Please respect the environment and do not print this message The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 1:00 AM -0500 wrote:
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Christopher Jones Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:03 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Justifying the move from Novell to AD =20 We're in the process of planning a migration from Novell to AD. We currently are building a business case for implementing AD. For those of you who have recently completed a Novell to AD migration, I would appreciate any information/documentation you may have used to support the decision, particularly from a security and TCO standpoint. Thanks. =20 Christopher Jones IT Security Administrator University of the Fraser Valley
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- Re: SECURITY Digest - 2 Nov 2009 to 3 Nov 2009 (#2009-251) Mark I. Berman (Nov 04)
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- Re: SECURITY Digest - 2 Nov 2009 to 3 Nov 2009 (#2009-251) Flynn, Gerald (Nov 04)