How to decide whether outsourcing is for you Organizations without a centralized IT department often turn to application service providers or outsourcers. But in doing so, they usually discover there s no quick fix to their IT needs. Organizations with fractured IT environments include companies cobbled together through mergers or acquisitions, companies whose IT organizations may have grown organically in a decentralized manner, and departments of public sector organizations that have been allowed to operate relatively autonomously. But the benefits can only be realized through a long, complex process. On the enterprise security front, authentication is the battle but authorization is the war.
Authentication lets companies determine who is accessing the resources on their networks.
Validating a user's identity is only the first step. Windows 2000 rollout is one of the most important deployment initiatives most organizations will undertake in the next two years. An important design decision is whether to go with single or multiple Active Directory 'forests' for your production intranet. Different strokes for different directory servers Directory servers are all different animals. Make sure your vendors are committed to the long-term care and feeding of your strategic directory servers.