Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

IAM out and WXPS in

Executives met this week and rumor has it they are extremely dissatisfied with IAM and their utter failure to keep employed any qualified candidates and rely on analyst level people to do high-level engineering work. With the constant fallout and turn over within that organization apparently the leaders in wxps are going to be taking over because they have succeeded where IAM has failed.
Besides failed leadership IAM has had a long-standing issue with stale outdated managers whose knowledge in the area was relevant 20 years ago but are trying to keep their jobs in an area they're no longer relevant in.
Between his success with the cloud and other technologies The Brady bunch is coming in to save reputation and restore company Faith with internal customers always having issues he even has a laid out plan to get rid of those outdated managers and replace them with up-to-date and qualified managers in the industry and bringing over his fleet of principal engineers as it was discovered by the executive board that IAM doesn't have any highly qualified and well-respected principal engineers and apparently the executive board was led to believe that this organization only is able to resolve issues using Google and Bing searches and without a internal written book with words and pictures that match other analysts are not capable of doing the same work thus innovation and growth have been stunted and why the corporation as a whole is so reliant on username and passwords with no due date to use something like yubikeys.

Anyway it's going to be interesting to see how the Brady bunch addresses these issues.

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Post ID: @OP+1uHWsmaA

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At present IAM and WXPS are tightly coupled to one another by Active Directory. One cannot exist without the other. With the slow onboarding of CloudPCs, AD is going away (replaced by Entra). When that’s complete, AIM and WXPS (as it exists today) will be no more. WXPS will continue to manage CloudPCs. Physical machines will still exist, but I don’t know how they will be managed.

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Post ID: @3exa+1uHWsmaA

IAM is a bad joke. Their latest “service account data assessment” compliance initiative sent to all app managers is just the latest example of how incredibly inefficient and poorly managed that whole group is. And their tools su-k too, when they’re not timing out or taking 5 minutes to process a simple request (I.e, ART, AIMS).

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Post ID: @3yxb+1uHWsmaA

Jason L will help clean up the critical initiatives and restore CTO governance.

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Post ID: @2wck+1uHWsmaA

WXPS is a hot mess too. Regulatory issues and finding galore.

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Post ID: @2gzs+1uHWsmaA

Same LOB that Amy N. was "voluntold" to move to from CTO to take over governance?

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Post ID: @1aeh+1uHWsmaA

Based on the findings of a past assessment, I would agree IAM has dropped the ball.

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Post ID: @1hyi+1uHWsmaA

What on Earth are you even talking about?

News Flash: the majority of people reading this have no clue what these groups do

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Post ID: @1zuk+1uHWsmaA

The Brady Bunch is a sausage factory. What a diverse group of male dorks.

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Post ID: @1sct+1uHWsmaA

Op,
Write much?
I guess not with that massive run on sentence.

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Post ID: @1gbz+1uHWsmaA

IAM WHAT IAM NOT

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Post ID: @1kbi+1uHWsmaA

Run on sentence much?

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Post ID: @1rra+1uHWsmaA

@unp+1uHWsmaA

LOL, still blaming Wachovia? That was 15 years ago dawg.... if you haven't fixed "Wachovia" by now, you're part of the problem.

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Post ID: @1vbk+1uHWsmaA

Do you know what a period looks like. You didn't take a breath.

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Post ID: @1wog+1uHWsmaA

This is a joke right? Brady’s org is a joke and Cloud is a cluster f@@k.

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Post ID: @1kue+1uHWsmaA

Digital has rolled out their own IAM and Passkey

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Post ID: @1dzi+1uHWsmaA

This post was so difficult to read. It may have even contained the longest run-on sentence ever. OP should be laid off for lack of basic writing skill. At the very least, stop worrying about IAM and start worrying about improving communication.

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Post ID: @1nsr+1uHWsmaA

@may+1uHWsmaA The problem with not using YubiKeys is that every other modern phishing-resistant form of MFA requires a mobile phone (Authenticator apps and passkeys) and the company stopped issuing corp devices years ago and no one is signing up to put a work app on their corporate phone. Not to mention RSA is expensive and easily phishable. YubiKeys are cheap, secure and self-provisioned by the end user to modern cloud identity platforms.

Just sayin’.

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Post ID: @woa+1uHWsmaA

New managers were brought in 3-4 years ago to fix all of the problems in IAM. You mean to tell me they didn’t succeed?

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Post ID: @mmk+1uHWsmaA

Is the IAM system one of the access control systems used by the bank?
If so the old system is way do for an overhaul. The system did an interesting job in adding people who had worked before at the bank. If you come back to the bank you should get your old number back and xx removed. Surprising how many people come back and get a new number. All h...ll breaks loose eventually. If putting in a new system figure out this use case. What systems break if this happens.
The problem with yubikeys is that people will loose them... just like the RSA thing. I am sure the bank will pick one or more systems and try to cludge them together.

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Post ID: @may+1uHWsmaA

WXPS is part of Enterprise Functions (Meyer) and not Mike Brady’s org. So is Mike Brady taking over or is it WXPS?

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Post ID: @fbz+1uHWsmaA

You know I read this everyday and I laugh at all these rumors that come in to this site. As a manager I can confirm IAM is going nowhere and like any other line of business this org has its issues too. I can also confirm that we are working to resolve those issues that Wachovia brought in with them. I was here when Wells Fargo made the business deal and took pity on that company and the problems that we inherited from that company were still fixing so it's not fair to blame Wells Fargo IAM for something Wachovia brought with them.

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Post ID: @unp+1uHWsmaA

I heard that IAM has such underqualified and no knowledge managers that there's a fleet of them that always go to one specific lead engineer to ask him how they should do their job and that lead engineer writes them perbatim exactly how to respond and what to say and more and that these managers are basically the mouthpiece of the singular engineer.

I do not know how true it is but if IAM basically created their entire environment to rest on the shoulders of one engineer I wonder what happens if they decide to lay him off how problematic would everything really be

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