In Universities students, alumni, faculty, and staff depend on high-tech tools to study, live,work, and play. As these institutions aggressively uses the Internet for student services, administrative systems, research projects, self-service, and profile management, online security is at a key. Users must feel protected for web channels to grow and enhance the user experience. At the same time, compliance mandates and university breaches become more numerous and threaten the institution’s assets and brand name. It becomes more and more important for institutions to meet the security demand.

Amerindia’s Identity Management solution allows higher education institutions to better serve their students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Universities campuses will achieve differentiation in the highly competitive student and faculty recruitment market, reduce exposure to operational risks, and comply with mounting public scrutiny and government regulations. Oracle’s best-in-class functionality, standards support, and built-in application integration provide these institutions with a complete and scalable identity management infrastructure.

Access Management

Universities are being challenged to secure student, alumni, faculty, staff and constituent access to various information systems, strengthen user authentication,and simplify the user experiences across multiple applications running on heterogeneous environments. Amerindia’s implementation of Oracle Access Manager Solution provide manageable, secure, access control to all web applications based on the policies of the institution. Its scalable architecture supports the largest campus portals, while its delegated administration makes it easy to distribute responsibilities for user administration to different departments and campuses. Building federated user communities that span global university boundaries represents an opportunity to access and share research data with affiliated academic and commercial institutions. Oracle Identity Federation implements standards based web technology, which makes these kinds of interactions possible.It is important for these organizations to protect themselves and their user population from increasingly sophisticated online attacks. Oracle Adaptive Access Manager protects identity and other personal information through a form of mutual authentication such that a user can be sure they are transacting with their intended party before providing any confidential information. Further, if a user should fall prey to a phishing scam and inadvertently provide their username and password to amalicious party, the facility has the ability to prevent that malicious party from using the credentials by immediately stopping suspicious behavior.

User Provisioning and Role Management

Higher education institutions also need to manage access privileges for a highly dynamic user population across a variety of systems – new students enroll each year,while a large population graduates and moves over to alumni status. Oracle Identity Manager meets this need by centralizing and automating the management of useraccounts and access privileges within connected system resources. Roles at a University can be quite fluid, e.g., a student can also be an employee and teaching assistant. Amerindia will configure Oracle Role Manager which allows users to be assigned privileges based ontheir affiliation with the institution, and re-assigns privileges as their affiliations within the organization change. Compliance features such as pre-defined “who-hasaccess-to-what” reports and attestation automation ease the burden of regulatory requirements – be they self-imposed or legally mandated.

Directory Services

With security breaches increasingly in the news, universities need to be vigilant about protecting user identity profiles. Oracle Internet Directory is a securere pository for user identity data that combines the mission-critical strength of the Oracle Database with the open compatibility of the LDAP v3 directory standard, resulting in a user identity store that is scalable, secure and delivers the high availability required for campus portals. One of the challenges of implementing security in a higher education community today is that user identity data is frequently scattered across multiple systems. Sometimes this is the result of a change of affiliation within the school system, othertimes it is a result of legacy information silos, and still other times this is by design to address certain privacy concerns. Oracle Virtual Directory supports rapid deployment of new applications by providing a real-time, virtual view of identity data from any data-store including directories, databases and Web Services, without Synchronization.

Conclusion

Amerindia can implement an Oracle Identity Management solution for higher education institutions need to address the unique challenges they face with an integrated, standards-based andopen set of products that fit into existing infrastructures. The results are less timespent integrating disparate components and the backing of the world's largestenterprise software company.

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Source :Oracle - http://www.oracle.com/partners/en/knowledge-zone/middleware/026097.pdf