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Identity Management Pilot Projects February 22, 2011

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Congratulations to the two projects selected for funding under the Identity Management Pilots strand of the “15/10 Grant: JISC infrastructure for education and research programme”

Both projects started in February and run till July 2011. The outputs from these pilots will be integrated into the Identity Management Toolkit (http://www.identity-project.org/) and expand on an already useful resource for institutions looking to examine their Identity Management processes and policies.

I will be visiting both projects in the next couple of weeks and look forward to working with them and helping the coordination with the Identity Management Toolkit team.

The successful bids were:

Identity management pilot – Imperial College

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/aim/identitymanagement.aspx

This proposal will use the methodology of the JISC Identity Management Toolkit to analyse the current state of identity management at the College and their future requirements. In addition, a gap analysis will be used to create a project roadmap for the future development of identity management at the College. It is hoped that this is a common challenge faced by other academic institutions and that the College’s experience of using the Toolkit will be of benefit to others looking to implement or modernise a similar centralised access and identity management (AIM) system in their environment.

Identity Management in a Service Provision Environment – UK Data Archive

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/aim/ukdataarchive.aspx

This project will employ the processes and guidance in the Identity Management (IdM) Toolkit to conduct an audit and gap analysis in the context of service provision to users from multiple organisations. This contrasts with the use of the Toolkit to date, which has focussed on IdM for users affiliated to and within single organisations.

It will examine the current IdM processes of the UK Data Archive as a Service Provider (SP), the link with an Identity Provider (IdP), and how an SP can support user access to resources by combining both roles.

The Archive has a complex role in IdM. Assurance is given to data owners that access to their data is appropriately managed. Ensuring only those users with relevant attributes (identities) are given access. Via single-sign-on (SSO) users are given access to a range of distributed resources.