Radovan on Enterprise IDM Roles
Radovan SemanÄÃk has been posting a series of articles on Identity Management, and the latest is a discussion of different approcahes to role capture and definition.
You will soon realize, that you have two or three times the number of roles than the number of employees. Now, it looks like you would spend all your effort on role-maintenance instead of employee-maintenance - the role system as just as dynamic as is the employee base. That’s pretty different from the solution as it was described by sales people: “you will just assign an employee to the role and that’s it”. But, there are ways out of this. At least partially.
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November 29th, 2005 at 9:24 pm
Radovan is exactly right. No one is talking about harder problems such as role based engineering especially in a federated context…