Microsoft Solutions

Solution Products and Technologies Leveraged

Identity Lifecycle Management

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 provides an integrated product that builds on Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 and offers identity synchronization, certificate management and user provisioning in one solution that works across the OS and other organizational systems.

Benefits:

• Keeps information synchronized and constant across a wide range of directories, databases and proprietary identity systems
• Provides a single place for IT and users to manage the entire lifecycle of user credentials
• Provides best-in-class directory synchronization, giving IT control and visibility over identity cleanup and reconciliation processes
• Provides IT a robust, policy-based management solution for controlling and helping secure resources
• Provides 25 connectors to external identity stores out of the box and offers extensibility to develop additional connectors
• Delivers a platform that can be customized as needed by IT, independent software vendor (ISV) partners or software integrator (SI) partners with a vast set of third-party solutions available

Information Protection

Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) provides a comprehensive solution to protect and control access to sensitive information, both during and after its delivery into authorized hands.

Benefits:

• Reduces risk of leaks of confidential information through persistent protection of data
• Eases adoption by users through smooth integration with Microsoft Office programs
• Eases deployment through integration with Windows Server Active Directory
• Supports third-party applications and document formats through a powerful software development kit (SDK)

Federated Identity

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) provides a standards-based mechanism for establishing trust between different entities, enabling organizations to collaborate more securely and efficiently. This gives users a smooth, cross-company single sign-on (SSO) experience.

Benefits:

• Increases efficiency and helps reduce cost through proficient management of IDs, passwords and your investment in Active Directory
• Enhances collaboration and efficiency between companies by adding a level of transparency to the accessing of information that is securely located at the other company
• Improves security by integrating with your current security infrastructure and business policies, using the ADFS claim-mapping capability along with its extensibility through support of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) token type and Kerberos authentication

Public Key Infrastructure

Microsoft Windows Certificate Services provides a comprehensive solution for issuing and administering certificates used in software security systems employing public key technologies. It also includes an integrated user experience in Windows. Certificate Services enables the secure exchange of information with strong security and easy administration across the internet, extranets, intranets and applications.

Benefits:

• Increases access security with improved security over username and password, with the ability to verify validity of certificates using online certificate status protocol (OCSP)
• Lowers cost of ownership by leveraging full integration with Active Directory for enrollment, store and revocation process
• Simplifies management of certificates from a single certificate store by using integration with Microsoft Management Console
• Simplifies deployment by enrolling user and computer certificates without user intervention

Directory Services

Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), the world’s most widely deployed directory service, provides a single place in the network to store and manage user privileges and devices. For organizations requiring flexible support for directory-enabled applications, Microsoft has Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (ADLDS): a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service. With direct integration with Federated Identity, Strong Authentication, Information Protection and Identity Lifecycle Management solutions, Active Directory is an ideal foundation for building a comprehensive identity and access solution.

Benefits:

• Lowers costs associated with managing Windows networks
• Simplifies identity management by providing a single view of all user information
• Provides a key data source for important compliance and audit information
• Enables multiple security types within your network
• Provides the ideal platform for building a comprehensive identity and access solutio