How To Secure Your Sensitive Data With Oracle’s Identity Manager User Provisioning?

Organizations like human beings are dynamic in nature and as they grow a lot of changes take place, which includes new system interfaces, applications and resources.  The attrition rate in most of the companies is quite high and it is a big headache for many companies to ensure that no information is passed from within by unauthorized sources. However, at the same time no company wants to keep their new employees idle by making the process of providing access to resources and applications cumbersome and difficult. On the other hand, companies have to make sure that an employee leaving the company does not compromise with the secret information’s of the company.

Solving the problem is difficult and more and more companies are opting for role based platform for integrating an identity management platform to manage the risk of data theft and to protect sensitive information along with a platform for automated provisioning. Oracle’s identity manager suit can be used for integrating portals and for providing a sophisticated solution for role and access management.

The role of an oracle identity manager is to establish a balance between providing customization without making the process of implementation very complex or difficult.  In fact OIM is often considered as the fundamental building block for the identity management solution. Various important access controls like the access to important directory services and entitlement management would depend upon the company’s ability to create the right identity solutions. With the help of OIM a company tries to achieve a balance between customization of provisioning without making the entire process to complex.

The Oracle identity management model is a sophisticated piece of technology which can be twisted in a manner to determine the complexity within which a developer is expected to work.

A user in the framework of OIM is typically described as someone who as per the company protocols has the right to access certain information. A user in OIM can also be described as someone with retain standard identity attributes along with a specific default data model that defines the fundamental enterprise-level identity of the data that is usually driven into the user’s account.

A user group is typically known as association of few people who are grouped together based on common functions, organization and job level. The association of a user with the group can haven via rule driven membership or through direct membership. Direct membership relies heavily on intuitive mechanism. The process is simple and straight forward and is usually easy to understand and validate. Membership rules comprises of simple conditional statements that is evaluated to determine the identity of a user in group.  Typically a user group is capable to exist across the enterprise in any organization or department.

Organization and Access Policy

Regional departments like sales, marketing and finance are expected to represent the organization. The OIM business structure can be typically broken down into three parts, namely known as company objects, department and branches. Each of these units has a separate business function to follow. As far as organizational mapping is concerned, the typical path goes through the user to the groups and finally to the resources. The access policy of an OIM model provides the company with the unique ability of controlling the user’s privileges in accessing the information.

The resource object of OIM under any circumstances does not represent the physical resources and does not have physical details. For physical service representation the concept of IT resources is used within the company. The resources usually hold all the important information pertaining to the resource for which a new user is provisioned.

 The oracle identity model is highly based on density-management solutions which is playing a big role in reducing the operating cost and have boosted productivity.