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New Generation Consultants, Inc

Identity And Access Management Overview

Friday, Feb 27th, 2008 3.00 PM – 3.40 PM CST


Introducing New Generation Consultants
www.newgenusa.com

• Oracle Certified Partner


– Founded 2001
– HQ in Des Plaines; branch in Chennai
– 6 Practice Areas
• Data and Process Integration
• Decision Support
• Enterprise Applications/OBAs
• Infrastructure Design, Deployment, Support
• Managed Services
• Education and Training
• Drawing at end of today’s presentation!
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Building an enterprise altogether
Agenda
 State Of the enterprise and challenges
 Identity and Identity Management : Overview
 Business drivers for IAM implementation
 A Glance at Oracle’s IAM suite
 Infrastructure of a complete IAM implementation
 Business and Technology advantages of IAM
 Questions and Answers
Audience
 Anyone who wants his/her companies to be successful
not only today but be ahead in the future as well.
 Users who want a very easy life dealing with UserIds,
passwords and identity and access related issues.
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What is Identity Management: Overview
Identity
 Who the user is
 What is he entitled to
 When is he allowed to
perform specific Functions
 Why has the user been
granted permissions

Identity Management
 Establishes the identity
 Describes the identity
 Follow identity activity
 Destroys the identity 4
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State Of an IDMless Enterprise

Costs Of Compliance User IDs and passwords

Access Control not controlled

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Another IDMless enterprise

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Enterprise equipped with IDM solution

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Oracle IAM Suite

Access Identity Directory


Control Administration Services
Oracle Access Manager
Oracle Enterprise Oracle Virtual Directory
Single Sign-
Sign-On
Oracle Identity Manager Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle Identity Federation (with Directory Integration
Platform)
Oracle Web Services
Manager

Audit & Compliance


Oracle Identity & Access Management Suite

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Oracle Identity Manager

 Identity and Role administration.(user and group


management, self-service functionalities for users, and
delegated administration)
 Approval and request management.
 Technology integration and Adapter
factory.
 Increased security.
 Provisioning (approval and request).
 Improved business responsiveness.
 Reduced costs and Streamlined operations.
 Policy-based entitlement management.
 Reconciliation and attestation support(for audit, regulatory,
and compliance purposes). 9
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Oracle Access Manager

 Automates Identity and Access


Management.
 Strengthens security and eliminates
latency.
 Streamlines partner integrations.
 Integrates with strategic applications.
 Ensures enterprise-wide
interoperability.
 Enables regulatory compliance.
 Provides single and multi-domain
Single Sign On solutions.
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Oracle Internet Directory

 Supports transparent data encryption.


 Directory integration and provisioning
platform(DIP).
 VSLDAP certified and EAL4 compliant.
 RDBMS backend which provides
proven scalability and performance.
 External authentication plugin for
authentication against AD, Novell, SUN and Open LDAP.
 Replication and High availability using multi master and
Oracle AS clusters.
 Server extensibility using Java and PL/SQL plugins.
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Oracle Virtual Directory

 Single Interface for Identity.


 Unify Identity data without
consolidation.
 Re-Use Identity data without
copying.
 Provide LDAP interface to
database and web services.
 Directory Proxy and Firewall.
 LDAP and Database adapters.
 Reduce number of Identity stores.
 Improve security and compliance.
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Oracle Identity Federation

 Support for SAML 2.0, Liberty ID-FF 1.x and


WS-Federation.
 Can be deployed both as a
identity or service provider.
 Load balancing and failover
support.
 Integrates with 3rd party identity
and access management solutions.
 Oracle Database, OID, Microsoft
SQL-Server, Microsoft AD and Sun Java System Directory
Server.
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Oracle Adaptive Access Manager

 Authentication Security – Virtual Hardware devices,


smartcards, biometrics, X.509 certificates and LDAP.
 Risk Analytics – Based on IPs,
Geo-Locations and network data.
 Behavior Profiling – Evaluates
user behavior against his own history
 Fraud investigation and forensics.
 Fraud intelligence

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Comparison of popular portfolios

Area Oracle Sun CA HP IBM NOV BMC


L
Federation Oracle Identity Federation    P  
Web Access Mgmt Oracle Access Manager       
Web Svcs Security Oracle Web Services Manager     
ESSO Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-  P   
On
Del Admin Oracle Access Manager       
Pwd. Mgmt. Oracle Identity Manager      
Provisioning Oracle Identity Manager       
Ent. Role Mgmt Oracle SmartRoles (TBA) P P P

Meta Directory Integration Platform    


AuthN/PKI Oracle Certificate Authority    
Virtual Dir Oracle Virtual Directory  P

Directory Oracle Internet Directory    P  

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Gartner Magic Quadrants
“Oracle’s offering of IAM products now pushes ahead of other IAM competitors such as
BMC, Computer Associates International, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Novell and
Sun Microsystems” - Roberta Witty, Gartner

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Burton Group endorsement
“Oracle's acquisition of Thor and OctetString is a good move. These acquisitions coupled
with Oracle's unique application top down approach to Identity Management will send
ripples through the industry.”- Mike Neuenschwander, Burton Group

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The Forrester Wave
The Forrester Wave™: Identity And Access Management, Q1 2008
Oracle Emerges As Leader, With IBM, Sun Microsystems, Novell, And CA Close Behind

Forrester evaluated leading


identity and access management
(IAM) vendors across 117 criteria
and found that Oracle has
established itself as the IAM
market Leader due to its solid
technology base across the IAM
landscape and its compelling,
aggressive strategy around what
it refers to as application-centric
identity.

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Business Benefits

 Reduce security risks with ease of usage


 Ensure compliance with corporate policies and regulatory
requirements
 Dramatically reduce the cost
of providing and managing
access to valuable corporate
Resources.
 Increase productivity and
Operational efficiency
 Enable IT to be more
responsive to evolving business requirements
 Increased partner integration
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A demand of the future

 Users will ask for more security of their identities.


 Users will demand more control over identities(CardSpace and
OpenID).
 Businesses will not survive without federations(Eg. Shibboleth).
 IAM will save huge number of dollars from the help desk.
 IAM will save phenomenal manual efforts and dollars spent in
Audit and Compliance.

“Identity management isn't something transient — it's not a fad,


nor will it go away. It's here to stay and it's decidedly not getting
any easier. Address it now, and you'll be ahead of the game.”
Dave Pickens
Principal Engineer – Sun Microsystems 20
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References:-
www.gcoug.org/presentations/Oracle%20AIM_JUNE_2006
.PPT by Rafael Torres

http://soug.acomp.usf.edu/TechDay2008/Bill_Nelson-
IdentityManagement.pdf by Bill Nelson

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Thanks for Supporting NCOAUG

• For more information contact:


– Eugene Breger
847-331-5554
gbreger@newgenusa.com

EMPOWER Your Business


–2400 E Devon Avenue
Suite 266
Des Plaines, IL 60018

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