White Papers
Identity Management Basics- 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.
- Standard IAM Business Processes: Corporate / Intranet Deployment:
Best practices for managing users, identity attributes and entitlements in a typical "corporate" environment - Standard IAM Business Processes: B2B / Partner Portal:
Best practices for managing users, identity attributes and entitlements in a typical Extranet-facing partner portal - Standard IAM Business Processes: B2C / Customer Portal:
Best practices for managing users, identity attributes and entitlements in a typical Extranet-facing customer portal - 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. - Intersection of identity management and cloud computing:
This document is a comprehensive analysis of all the ways that Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions can be run in and integrate with cloud computing systems. Both cloud computing and IAM are relatively new, so the first part of this document defines key concepts and terminology. Next, assumptions that clarify the scope of this document in terms of network topology and functionality are presented and finally a comprehensive list of architectural scenarios are presented, along with an analysis of the costs, risks and benefits of each scenario. - Best practices for managing user identifiers:
Best practices for assigning and managing unique identifiers to the users of computer systems in medium to large organizations.
- Identity Management as a Service: Deploying IAM in a SaaS Model:
This document discusses strategies for deploying an identity and access management system (IAM) using a software as a service (SaaS) provider. It identifies business and technical challenges that arise when an IAM system is moved outside of an organization's private network perimeter and offers solutions to address them. - Intersection of identity management and cloud computing:
This document is a comprehensive analysis of all the ways that Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions can be run in and integrate with cloud computing systems. Both cloud computing and IAM are relatively new, so the first part of this document defines key concepts and terminology. Next, assumptions that clarify the scope of this document in terms of network topology and functionality are presented and finally a comprehensive list of architectural scenarios are presented, along with an analysis of the costs, risks and benefits of each scenario.
- 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.
- Business Case for Identity Administration and Access Governance:
This document is designed to assist in the preparation of a business case for the deployment of an identity administration and access governance (IAM) system. The benefits of an IAM system: namely cost savings, improved user service and strengthened security are justified in terms of concrete metrics, which compare current to desired state. - 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.