Motoring organisation the AA is to implement an identity
and access management solution running on Novell's SuSE Linux to
automate the management of digital identities for around 6,000
staff.
The AA said the move was designed to increase security by
ensuring that the right people had access to the resources they
needed, when they needed them. The move would also reduce
complexity across the organisation and ultimately control IT costs,
said the AA.
The AA said it was making changes in its identity management
procedures following industry recommendations by the Financial
Services Authority. Adopting the solution will allow the AA to
reduce capital offset obligations – a pool of money it is required
to keep as insurance against the risk of fraud and crime.
James McNeilly, senior architect at the AA, said, “We must be
able to audit our IT environment and easily identify users and
access rights. We must ensure that only current employees have
access to systems and that these employees have the correct account
privileges.”
The AA will implement an identity management system based on
Novell Identity Manager and Novell eDirectory technology.
The system will be integrated with the AA’s SAP human resource
system, ensuring that when a new user change is created or removed
from the SAP HR system, the account will be automatically
provisioned or deprovisioned from the identity management system
and company IT systems.
The identity management system will run on a Novell SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server. Ongoing maintenance and support of the project
will be handled by IBM under an existing and extensive outsourcing
agreement.