midPoint: a brand new open-source user provisioning system
I had the chance to have a short interview with Radovan Semancik, architect of the really interesting midPoint project. Here the transcript! Thanks again to Radovan for his patience!
Posts Tagged ‘digital identity’
Best practices for identity management projects by Hitachi
This post is to recommend you a new white paper by Hitachi: “Best Practices for Identity Management Projects”.
The paper presents some best practices related to project management topics useful deploying and operating an identity management infrastructure.
Is there any open source identity and access management suite?
Some days ago I was wondering why among the enterprise level Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructures, I’ve never seen an open source solution.
Sun claims “to open sourcing all of its identity management software products by early 2011″ but in the meanwhile, is there any complete, enterprise level, open source identity & access management suite?
If not, is there any set of open source components that can be combined together to build a complete IAM suite?
Identity synchronization: which is the best conflicts resolving model?
In every identity management solution there is one identity management system and one or more managed systems, also known as target or resource systems.
Identity synchronization is the task of synchronize identity data across a wide range of heterogeneous applications, directories, databases, and other data stores that are connected to the identity management system in order to capitalize its provisioning capabilities and, inherently, all the benefit that the identity management systems brings.
So, we can say that the main duties of identity synchronization is to keep synchronized and aligned identity data stored across different systems.
Demystifying identity management
Googling around on the web looking for some white papers on identity and access management architectures and guide lines, I’ve found this interesting video provided by TechTarget in their “How to build an identity and access management architecture” series.
In this speech, Richard Mackey explores the essentials of identity and access management, from the definition of digital identity to the most common identity and access management architectural issues.
This video explores different aspects about identity within organizations and covers topics such as access management fundamentals, centralized and de-centralized identity management models, and best practices for integrating commercial products.
To be honest that’s a basic introduction to this complex world but, despite that, it’s very well organized and exposed, and offers some challenging food for thought and tips on some interesting web resources to which refer.