Cloud Account Federated Provisioning & De-Provisioning

Cloud Provisioning Challenges

One of the most important challenges in adopting Cloud computing is providing provisioning and synchronization of identities. Most companies already have existing user stores with their identities that need to be bulk provisioned when adopting a new service. Every time a new identity is created or an existing is modified, the change needs to be propagated to all cloud provider platforms. Another important part is de-provisioning, to make sure that identity’s are removed when they leave the company.

Intel Solution

Intel^® Expressway Cloud Access 360 provides a rich set of account provisioning & de-provisioning functions that are delivered by the embedded provisioning engine. No more manual account creation as provisioning of accounts is seamlessly pushed from the enterprise to all cloud applications authorized for corporate use. Key attributes can be fetched from multiple authoritative attribute sources (SPML capable provisioning systems, directories, databases) and kept in sync across cloud providers as updates are made. Benefits include:

• Reduced administration
• Faster adoption of cloud provider apps
• Automatic orphan account detection
• Event based provisioning & de-provisioning
• Ability to aggregate attributes from multiple user stores
• Just-in-time provisioning