Unified Identity and Access Management at Penn State University
Learn about the advanced information technologies and secure identity access services being managed at Penn State University. Includes the evolution of authentication mechanisms and modern components like Kerberos V and LDAP to ensure enterprise-wide digital identity.
Unified Identity and Access Management at Penn State University
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Auth/Authz at PSU Steve Kellogg Director, Advanced Information Technologies Academic Services and Emerging Technologies Information Technologies Services The Pennsylvania State University
Penn State • 24 Campuses • 140,000+ users (being managed) • Single Identity; Penn State Access Account • AFS/K4 (circa 1991) • DCE/DFS (circa 1995)
General Philosophy • Few scalable components • Security is very important • A single enterprise-wide digital identity • A single account and services/resources are allocated and de-allocated to the account. • Standards-based approach • A preference for build v. buy.
Components • Registry/directory • Authentication system • Authorization; user and group • A secure distributed interprocess communication mechanism • A scalable, secure single filesystem integrated via the same auth/authz mechanisms
Modern Components • Kerberos V • LDAP • Authorization • Attributes • Groups • Distributed IPC • HTTPS POST • XMLRPC • Filesystem?????