Identity Access (IDA) and Single Sign-on

For many years, organizations have been attempting to create a common employee and resource directory for their organization, however there have been many challenges in accomplishing the task. Besides technical challenges of interconnecting various directories within an organization, one of the other biggest challenges has been to get funding support for a common enterprise directory. With Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), identity management and a common enterprise directory truly became business critical as organizations attempt to address provisioning and deprovisioning of employees through role-based security.

CCO has been working with single sign-on, directory synchronization, and provisioning and deprovisioning technologies for the past 10-years and has helped some of the largest organizations in the world create a common directory structure using a variety of Identity Access (IDA) tools.

Some facts on CCO's expertise with IDA:

  • First partner in California providing consulting support for Microsoft directory management tools (MMS/MIIS)
  • Created directory sync for the State of California integrating 47 directories impacting over 200,000 users
  • Have created custom scripts for provisioning and deprovisioning accounts
  • Integrated IDA integration in environments with PeopleSoft, SAP, iPlanet, LDAP, Oracle, Notes, NetWare, Mainframes

 Other examples of services provided by CCO for MIIS:

LDAP / Active Directory Integration Design and Implementation
  1. Many organizations have a mix of UNIX and Windows systems in their environment, and those with a multi-platform environment are constantly looking for ways to integrate the disparate directories each platform has.
  2. CCO, being a provider of services for both Microsoft Windows networking technologies as well as UNIX environments (SUN, Linux, HP/UX, AIX) provides assistance to organizations looking to plan and implement LDAP in their environment.
Single Sign-on / Identity Management Planning and Implementation Assistance
  1. For years, organizations have had the dream of minimizing the number of times a user has to logon (logging on to the desktop, logging on to the mainframe, logging on to the accounting application, logging on to email, etc). The technology now exists that provides a method of creating a truly single sign-on directory environment by synchronizing directories between disparate systems.
  2. Because CCO is certified across multiple platforms (Windows, Netware, Unix, Lotus Notes, Exchange, Sendmail, Oracle, SQL, etc), the consultants at CCO provide assistance to organizations in the creation of a single sign-on and identity management environment.