White Papers
- Defining Identity Management:
Defines the components of identity management, starting with the underlying business challenges of managing user identities and entitlements across multiple systems and applications. Identity management functions are defined in the context of these challenges. - Identity Management Terminology:
This document introduces key identity management terminology and offers clear, unambiguous definitions. The intent is to help the reader focus on solving real problems, rather than waste energy on the language of identity management. - Beyond Roles: A Practical Approach to Enterprise User Provisioning:
Introduces a strategy for large-scale enterprise identity and entitlement management that takes advantage of roles but is not constrained to only using roles. The strategy complements the traditional role-based approach with user-issued security requests and periodic audits.
- User Provisioning Best Practices:
Guidance to information technology decision makers about how to take best advantage of a user provisioning system. - Reasons to Deploy Password Management before User Provisioning:
Password management and user provisioning are fundamental components of an identity management solution. This document explains why password management is and normally should be deployed first. - Enterprise IdM: Suite vs. Best of Breed:
A comparison of suite and best-of-breed approaches to enterprise identity management.
- Color brochure:
One page glossy product brochure for Identity Manager. - Identity Manager White Paper:
Identity Manager White Paper - Hitachi ID Identity Manager Features:
A brief overview of Hitachi ID Identity Manager features. - Locking Down an Identity Manager Server:
Locking Down an Identity Manager Server - Selecting a User Provisioning Product:
This document helps organizations to define criteria which can be used to select an appropriate user provisioning product. The selection process begins with the business case for a user provisioning system. This business case is used to develop functional and technical requirements, which in turn drive the product and vendor selection process.
- Best Practices for Identity Management Projects:
Presents best practices for deploying and operating an identity management infrastructure. Builds on Hitachi ID Systems' years of experience in deploying password management and user provisioning into some of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. - Identity Management Project Roadmap:
Identity Management Project Roadmap - Addressing Deployment Challenges in Enterprise Identity Management:
Describes the major challenges in deploying an enterprise identity and access management (IAM) system, including data cleansing, role engineering and workflow definition and maintenance. Goes on to suggest techniques and best practices to overcome every challenge.
Identity Management Basics