Identity Management System Automating Entitlement Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Enterprise systems face challenges in effectively managing user identities and access to resources across multiple target systems, leading to complexities in provisioning and managing entitlements.
Innovation Solution
An Identity Management (IDM) system is introduced to unify and integrate security, enabling automated provisioning of resources and managing entitlements by identifying and synchronizing accounts, roles, and dependencies within the system, allowing users to request resources and receive appropriate access permissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automated provisioning is implemented to streamline user access management, then productivity and ease of operation are improved, but device complexity and system integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
An identity management system is introduced as an intermediary component between users and multiple target systems. This mediator handles account identification, dependency resolution, and entitlement provisioning automatically, reducing the complexity burden from the overall system while improving access management productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying required accounts and resolving dependencies before actual resource provisioning. This advance preparation automates the provisioning workflow, enhancing productivity while containing complexity through structured pre-processing.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple target systems are integrated to provide comprehensive resource access, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but device complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The identity management system is designed with universal functionality to work across multiple different target systems. It provides a unified interface for account identification, entitlement management, and dependency resolution that adapts to various system types, enhancing versatility while maintaining consistent management procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the complex task of multi-system integration into distinct functional modules: target system connection management, account identification, dependency resolution, and entitlement provisioning. This modular approach reduces management complexity by organizing complexity into manageable segments.
3Ease of operation
If dependency relationships between accounts are automatically resolved, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision and detection difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that automatically detect account dependencies by analyzing entitlement requirements and system relationships. This automated detection provides feedback loops that resolve dependencies without user intervention, improving ease of operation while systematically handling the detection complexity through iterative analysis.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and system for managing entitlements provided by a target system in an organization is provided. In one embodiment, a user of an organization may utilize services provided by an identity management system to request for resources stored in one or more target systems of the organization. Upon receiving the request, the identity management system may identify if an account is associated with the user that enables the user access to the resource in one of the target systems. In some examples, the identity management system may provision a new account for the user, associate the new account with the user and grant an entitlement to the new account, wherein the entitlement enables the user to access the requested in the target system.