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.

UK Data Archive: Identity Management in a Service Provision Environment

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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.

Project Staff

Programme Director

John Shepherdson
UK Data Archive, University of Essex,
Colchester, CO4 3SQ

Programme Manager

David Hall
UK Data Archive, University of Essex
Census Services Coordinator
djhall@essex.ac.uk
01206 873950

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Summary
Start date
1 February 2011
End date
31 July 2011
Funding programme
Access and Identity Management Programme
Project website
Lead institutions

UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Partner institutions
Information Systems Services, University of Essex
Committees
  • JISC Infrastructure and Resources Committee
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