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BUILDING A DISTRIBUTED ACCESS MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE Reports from the Real World. UW-Madison. History/Current IdM Infrastructure. Next up: Populations, Affiliations and Service Entitlements (PASE). Business Drivers.
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BUILDING A DISTRIBUTED ACCESS MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTUREReports from the Real World
Next up: Populations, Affiliations and Service Entitlements (PASE)
Business Drivers • Efficiently manage the identities of persons and their relationship with the university. • Securely and effectively conduct business with other institutions and government agencies. • Examples: • Granting a visiting professor access to the network and course management system. • Giving non-university employees (e.g. UW Hospital) to university managed resources (e.g. parking). • Providing new hires with an email address to receive employment communications before they begin work.
Requirements • Rapid response to customer requests • New affiliations (groups) • Access to services by new or existing affiliations • A stable and reliable authorization infrastructure • Standard provisioning processes • Standard system interfaces for accessing group and entitlement information • Support for large numbers of affiliations and diverse populations • Better visibility into who has access to service • Improved audit and logging capability • Reduce the need for custom development when addressing customer requests
Approach/History • Improved reconciliation process • Developed standard interface to the UDS • 2001 - Started PASE • Made the decision use internal development • Enabled the registry (UDS) to store affiliation data • A lot of project ups and downs. Changes is staff and management • 2005 - Reinitiated UI requirements gathering • Looked like it was going to take a long time • Decided to step back, do a survey of the market • Did a build vs. acquire analysis • Determined that acquiring a solution would be the most time-efficient and economical path • Acquired a real project manager • Adopted and implemented a rigorous project management mindset
The PASE Team • Chris Holsman - Executive Sponsor • Pam Allen - Project Manager • Monica Crawford - Lead Developer • Steve Devoti - Enterprise Architect • Chuck Miller - Business Analyst • Mark Weber - Solution Architect • Keith Hazelton - Enterprise Architect