Smart Security Solutions For Government
You’re looking for balance. A system that protects your people, assets and information. But one that helps you get the job done, providing the public with the government services you've been charged to deliver.
What you need is smart access. Information available to the right people. Offices open to the appropriate staff. Enabling government to serve the people.
HP Identity Management is an enterprisewide security solution that helps agencies establish digital identities, verify individuals as authorized and control what they can use and what they can do. It converges processes and technologies to authenticate and authorize access – effectively and efficiently.
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Implementing HP Identity Management Solutions
To ensure that security is a key factor in its identity management (IdM) solutions, a robust IdM program should focus on four core physical and network areas:
- Secure desktop
- Secure remote access
- Single sign-on
- Digital identity card
These should be integrated with a management platform that provides the foundation upon which these solutions are built. Solution approaches are developed based on individual organizational policy, processes, procedures and requirements. The solution requirements can be better defined and alternative approaches can be modeled according to a cost-benefit analysis. This leads to the selection of a recommended solution and an implementation road map.
Key Components of HP's Identity Management Solution
HP's IdM framework lays down the objectives and security strategies of the enterprise, the key business requirements, the basic architectural design concepts (the conceptual foundation), the layer of technical architecture, the services provided at each layer, the relationships between layers and the rules for how the layers are interconnected. The key components of our IdM framework include:
- Identification (credentials)
- Authentication services (secure access)
- Authorization services (user entitlements)
- Provisioning (enterprise application SSO)
- Secure data storage (policy enforcement)
Automate Administrative Tasks
In an information technology (IT) network, identity management software is used to automate administrative tasks, such as resetting user passwords. Password synchronization (p-synch) enables a user to access resources across systems with a single password. A more advanced version, called single sign-on, enables synchronization across applications as well as systems. Standards such as Extensible Name Service (XNS) are being developed to enable identity management both within the enterprise and beyond. In addition, policies must be developed to govern the system, and these policies will be enforced using software.
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