Until implementing any identity and access management system in the enterprise, organisations must determine who will be in charge of designing, enacting, and enforcing identity and access policies.
IT professionals implementing an identity and access management system largely on-premises and largely for employees should become familiar with the OSA IAM design pattern for identity management, SP-010. The pattern describes how different functions communicate with IAM components and the structures that depend on IAM. Since they are dealt with separately, policy implementation and policy decisions are distinguished.
These steps for creating an efficient identity and access management system architecture, as discussed by expert Ed Moyle, should be followed by organisations who want to incorporate non-employee users and use identity and access management system in the cloud in their architecture:
-Make a list of programmes, services, products, and other elements with which users can communicate.
- Recognize how the organization’s various settings, such as cloud-based and on-premises software, interact.
- Know the aspects of the identity and access management system that are most relevant to the company.
For identity and access management system performance, implementations should follow identity and access management system best practices, including recording goals and responsibilities. Businesses should also ensure that security and sensitive systems relating to identification are centralised. Perhaps most important, organizations should create a process they can use to evaluate the efficacy of current IAM controls.
