Virtualized Federated Role Provisioning for Enterprise Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) systems face challenges in seamless integration and collaboration between disparate enterprises due to unique security systems, leading to costly and time-consuming development efforts for compatibility, hindering efficient and secure provisioning of system access in dynamic environments.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a virtualized federated role provisioning service that packages and distributes a self-contained role hierarchy and policy decision point service, enabling independent processing and enforcement of roles across remote environments, thus facilitating inter-enterprise integration without requiring shared policy environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional RBAC systems are used for each enterprise separately, then each enterprise maintains its own security policy and control, but integration and collaboration between enterprises become costly and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the monolithic RBAC system into distributed virtual machine instances that can be deployed across multiple enterprises. Each enterprise can run its own security policy enforcement within isolated virtual machines, allowing independent security control while enabling seamless integration through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal virtual machine-based RBAC platform that can function across different enterprise boundaries. The same virtual machine infrastructure supports multiple enterprises' security policies simultaneously, providing a multi-functional solution that eliminates the need for separate integration efforts.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a large-scale development effort is undertaken to make two RBAC systems compatible, then seamless integration is achieved, but the cost and time required become prohibitive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-configuring virtual machine instances with embedded RBAC logic and security policies. These virtual machines are prepared in advance and can be rapidly deployed to new enterprises without requiring custom integration development, thus reducing both time and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by replicating standardized virtual machine images across different enterprise environments. Instead of developing custom integration solutions for each enterprise pair, the same virtual machine template is copied and deployed, enabling rapid adaptation and integration.
3Measurement precision
If manual user access provisioning is used, then individual user control is precise, but administrative feasibility becomes impossible for organizations of moderate size
Solution Approach 1:
The patent accelerates the access control process by using automated virtual machine-based policy enforcement that rapidly evaluates and applies security rules. This automated approach maintains precise access control while dramatically improving administrative efficiency compared to manual methods.
Data Source
AI summary
In various embodiments, techniques for virtualized federated role provisioning are provided. An entire policy and role provisioning environment is packaged in a first environment and sent to a second environment. The second environment authenticates and initiates the policy and role provisioning environment as a virtualized federated role provisioning service or a shared policy decision point service. The shared policy decision point service dynamically resolves policy, roles, and constraints for requesting resources within the second environment and supplies this information to a local policy enforcement point service that enforces roles on the resources.