Key Features
- Capability to automate the create/update/delete functions of accounts based on action in an organization’s existing directory service (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP)
- Ability for designated personnel to manually add/update/delete users through a set of web-based workflows
Target Systems
- Google Apps Education Edition
- Microsoft Live @EDU
- Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS)
- SPML enabled cloud services
- Over 50 others supported with upgrade to full use TridentHE Identity Manager
Description
Aegis TridentHE Cloud Identity Provisioning Appliance is an integrated hardware and software solution for provisioning and synchronization of identities and passwords to cloud service providers including Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Live@edu. The appliance is designed for rapid deployment, low risk, and future scalability. The appliance requires minimal configuration to integrate and leverages the existing credentials already in place.
The TridentHE Cloud Identity Provisioning Appliance is built upon the TridentHE Identity Management Suite. The TridentHE Identity Suite is a cost-effective, proven, higher education focused, open standards solution providing password management, internal/external SSO, compliance, workflow and auditing capabilities across all identity repositories.
Cloud Provisioning Challenges
Cloud-based services provide a compelling solution for higher education institutions to outsource collaboration tools including email, calendar, and collaborative team sites, for low or no cost. Aegis’s TridentHE Cloud Identity Provisioning Appliance provides the infrastructure needed to automatically add, modify, and delete accounts in the cloud service by extending existing directory services and provisioning infrastructure already in place in higher education institutions. This gives universities the opportunity to quickly migrate their collaborative services to the cloud by leveraging existing identity infrastructure, accounts, and passwords without having to manage or provide help desk support for new identity repositories.
One question that must be addressed prior to migrating to cloud services is “How will we manage external accounts?”. The TridentHE Cloud Provisioning Appliance provides a full set of account management tools through real-time secure interfaces and APIs provided by the cloud service.
Contractor and guest access registration/ sponsorship forms are included in the TridentHE appliance. This ensures that all create, update, and delete actions of user accounts on cloud services follow the organization’s policies.
For example, a rule can be easily applied to a contractor needing access to cloud based services for one week that will automatically disable the account at the appropriate time. The appliance’s provisioning capability is an efficient and secure account management solution initially targeted for cloud services but scales to handle future IAM needs such as provisioning, single sign-on, and compliance with an upgrade to a full use TridentHE license.
Summary
Aegis TridentHE Cloud Identity Provisioning Appliance offers the solution organizations need to migrate identities and synchronize passwords quickly and efficiently to cloud services. The appliance integrates with clients existing infrastructure and automatically detects all add/modify/delete actions. The appliance provides a platform that scales to handle future IAM needs such as internal account provisioning, single sign on, other federated identify, and compliance.
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