Unified Identity Cloud Integration for Secure Multi-App Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing identity and access privileges across multiple cloud applications is burdensome and complex for organizations, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A software platform that automates the registration and integration of applications using a unified identity management system, enabling seamless access and authentication across multiple cloud platforms through a single sign-on, identity governance, and privileged access management features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional IGA tools are used to manage identity and access privileges, then identity management functionality is provided, but the system complexity and operational burden increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple identity clouds (workforce identity cloud and customer identity cloud) into a unified identity management system. This consolidation eliminates the need to manage separate identity systems, reducing operational burden while maintaining comprehensive identity management capabilities across different user types and applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified identity management system provides universal identity management functionality that serves multiple purposes: workforce identity management, customer identity management, application provisioning, and access privilege management. This multi-functional approach replaces multiple specialized tools with a single system that handles all identity management needs.
2Reliability
If multiple separate identity clouds are maintained for different user types, then specific identity management requirements are met, but security vulnerabilities and phishing risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
By merging workforce and customer identity clouds into a unified system, the patent eliminates security gaps that exist at the boundaries between separate systems. The unified architecture ensures consistent security policies, authentication mechanisms, and access controls across all user types, reducing phishing vulnerabilities while maintaining appropriate security distinctions between different user categories.
3Productivity
If manual identity and access privilege management is performed, then flexibility in managing individual user permissions is achieved, but time consumption and inefficiency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The unified identity management system enables self-service capabilities where users can autonomously manage their own identity information, update profiles, and request access privileges. This automation eliminates manual administrative tasks for routine identity management operations, significantly improving efficiency while reducing the time required for user onboarding, access requests, and identity updates.
4Ease of operation
If comprehensive access privileges are granted to all users, then access to resources is simplified, but security risks and unauthorized access increase
Solution Approach 1:
The unified identity management system implements local quality by applying differentiated access control policies to different user types and resources. Instead of uniform access rules, the system tailors permissions and privileges according to specific user roles, departments, and resource types, enabling easy resource access for authorized users while maintaining security through role-based access control and principle of least privilege.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and devices for unifying multiple identity clouds are described. A first platform determines information for an application with multiple capabilities. The information is usable by a second platform for configuring the capabilities via the first platform. The first platform may communicate the information to the second platform via an application programming interface (API). The second platform may obtain a request to configure the application for an account associated with a user of the second platform. In response to the request, the first platform may authenticate the user in accordance with an authentication flow of the application. As a result of the authentication flow, the first platform may obtain a user credential associated with the user and an indication to grant the second platform access to an API credential that is associated with permissions for configuring the capabilities in the application via the first platform.