Novell BorderManager features such as VPNs and Proxy Services are dependent upon sound identity management. Many organizations today house identity data in multiple directories. For example, your organization might keep user account information in one tree for authentication purposes and in another tree to reflect organizational structures. In this case, you face the challenge of ensuring that data synchronization is both timely and accurate. An identity management solution can help ensure the integrity of user data by automating data synchronization. Additionally, an identity management solution can also automate the provisioning of resources and data access based on policy.
Novell DirXML® is an identity management solution that distributes new and updated information across directories, databases, and critical applications on the network and across firewalls to partner systems. Based on business rules you define, DirXML can ensure that when a new employee is hired or a new partner is brought onto a team, that person will have immediate access to the resources required to get their work moving.
For example, using DirXML, you could define rules that provide immediate eDirectory account creation in both your authentication tree and your hierarchical tree when employee data is entered in your Human Resources database. Based on certain attributes, such as the value of a job title or department, you also could provide access to data held in various internal Web sites while preventing access to data held on other sites. Finally, when this employee or partner leaves the organization, data access would be revoked immediately.
For more information about how DirXML can help you address identity management challenges, refer to the DirXML Product Page.