Federated local access management environment
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This project completed a significant investigation into the social aspects of a university environment in which Federated Access Management ‘single sign-on’ and related technologies for identity and access management are beginning to impact on end-users (students and academic staff), using the London School of Economics as a testbed.
Executive Summary
To facilitate the investigation, the implementation of some supporting services that enhance end-user interaction with identity and access management middleware was accelerated, partly within the project and partly via a separate related project to implement and populate an Enterprise Directory for the London School of Economics (LSE).
The technical work in the project was designed to make the social study possible; the project was not intended to be a development project in its own right. However, the project was able to make detailed recommendations not just to the LSE but to the UK HE community for management of:
- Delegated Authority Management
- Attribute Release Policy
- Virtual Organisation Management
within the infrastructure that has been selected to support the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research and parallel national organisations in many other countries.
The social study produced a large quantity of data (which has been preserved and is available for further analysis by other researchers), a comprehensive report, and recommendations for future support for end-users.
All published material produced by the project available