Irrespective of the domain to which an Organization pertains to, heterogeneity is spread among all the departments. The levels of heterogeneity vary from the standard operating procedures to applications that automate the business procedures and operations. Considering multitude of factors, each department in an enterprise is accustomed to their business suitable application. This increases the burden on the end-user to manage the credentials that are required to get access to the applications. End user handles this burden of password maintenance by storing them physically or electronically, which is subjected to high risk. Although there is an advantage of mitigating the risk that if a users’ application credentials are compromised, the other applications may or may not be affected. However this practice has numerous disadvantages including audit and access control which is the number one concern. In the early years of this decade, single user –password practice has replaced the traditional practice. However, this replacement enforces constraints like a single Identity store for all applications, common password policy requirements etc. This increased the need for a common solution that protects all the applications adhering to the above mentioned constraints. Oracle Access Manager, a product from the Oracle Identity Management suite is the highly recommended solution as it seamlessly integrates all the applications along with per-user access control.

Oracle Access Manager (OAM) provides the ability to protect heterogeneous applications irrespective of the development and deployment frameworks. Any application that is accessible through web console can be protected using OAM. Oracle provides out-of-the box solutions for the applications using standard web servers like Apache and IIS. Accessibility through web console is not the only requirement to be protected by OAM. Another major point of consideration includes how the application reacts to the integration. Putting in simple terms, the application should allow login if the proper information comes from OAM. Apart from integration of heterogeneous applications, access control also have to achieved which requires fetching the information from the Identity store which is used to authenticate and authorize against the target application. Implementation without design causes haywire in the whole environment. To tackle all these important aspects, Amerindia has the right tactic and technique to analyze, design and implement a robust solution which can be easily extended in future. Amerindias’ unique and self-sustainable Access Management solution exceeds the requirements in all the aspects of software lifecycle helps organizations to tackle against different network attacks. The following are some of the many applications for which Amerindia has successfully designed and implemented solution.

• PeopleSoft
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• BMC Remedy Ticket Managing system
• SAP Applications

Giving end users the ability to create and reset their password without assistance dramatically reduces help desk costs and helps to keep users productive. Exposing such sensitive flows on the intranet and extranet requires advanced security measures to protect them from exploitation by criminals however. Oracle Access Manager 11g now has out of the box integrations with Oracle Identity Manager 11g and Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 11g to provide real-time risk analytics and risk-based challenge mechanisms including knowledge based authentication and One Time Password (OTP) anywhere. The password change can be down streamed to all the heterogeneous target applications strengthens security while maximizing usability for a truly enterprise class security solution.