Monday, November 10, 2008

Roles and Entitlements Management

Policy (access and identity) management is the common element between role and authorization management

Access and Identity Management aka Entitlement & Role Management

Role engineering, identity analytics, authorization management are coming
Role life cycle management, identity auditing and authorization management

Questions:

  • Distributed vs Centralized Entitlement Management

  • Describe difference between row level security and entitlements

  • Do you see people 'de-provisioning' entitlements and/or roles

  • Entitlement auditing necessary vs role management and who is the audience (role governance group?)

  • Map entitlements to appropriate role leve – Do we, should we management the lowest level OR just the IT roles, not operation and resources

  • Assigning roles AND entitlements are seperate activities per Earl (Perkins)
    identity analytics --> auditing (AND what where there entitlements 8 mos ago)

    Policies --> Controls
    Business Roles (Ent Roles) --> IT Roles (and rules) are comprised of Entitlements, operations, and resources

    This is VERY similar to standard RBAC model

    Users → Roles → Attributes (locations, etc) → Permissions → Operations → Resources

    what is XACML and why is it important?

    A common policy/service registry is a possibility (similar to directories)

    The bottom line here is that there are a TON of solutions for each technology, CISCO for Networks, Oracle for Database, BEA for Web App Servers, IBM for WebSSO, etc

    NO ONE VENDOR for ALL entitlements management

    AND GOOD LUCK getting buy off from the software developers to implement entitlement in their SDLC

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