The Desired Benefits of Identity Management - Part 3

Dear Readers,

My name is Franz Devantier, creator of this blog.  I am an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP DBA 11g) Security DBA.  I will be sharing with you the basic duties of an Oracle DBA, and also some of the undocumented, and not so well known tasks. 

The Desired Benefits of Identity Management  -  Part 3

The goal should be:

·         Improved security; because there is now a single point of control, instead of multiple points of control

·         Improved efficiency; with a single point of control we would have eliminated duplication, and delays.  Dispersed administrative activities and multiple dispersed actions for one account have been eliminated

The measuring of an identity management solution should include reductions in resource allocation, acceptable cost and complexity levels, and relevance:

·         One off Cost: The Identity Management infrastructure should be designed in such a way, that new applications can be deployed into the Identity Management infrastructure, without having to redevelop the infrastructure.  In this way provision should have been made to add portals, J2EE applications, e-business suite applications etc.

·         Central Management, but with Distributable tools: Managing identities and provisioning should be done centrally.  Distributed tools can still be managed from a central location.  All account alterations can be addressed from one central point

·         Transparent, and timely distribution:  Changes to user accounts, changes to profiles, or privileges, should be immediately available to the distributed infrastructure, including applications and distributed databases

·         Single sign-on: Single sign on should be possible, across all enterprise applications.  Users should not have to remember multiple passwords, and security administrators, should not have to protect multiple password repositories and provisioning mechanisms.

·         Single point of integration: The identity management system provide a single point of integration between the enterprise environment, and other identity management systems.  The need for custom point to point integration solution’s, should be eliminated.

If an Identity Management System can meet all of these criteria, then it will provide the enterprise with: high availability, centralized information store, distributed tools managed centrally.  Each application deployed in such an infrastructure would then enjoy the benefits of the Identity Management infrastructure.

Franz Devantier,

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