CONSOLIDATING FRAGMENTED IDENTITY: ATTRIBUTES AGGREGATION TO SECURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Author(s):
Ghazi Ben Ayed
Paper abstract: Modern organizations become distributed and maintain multiple identity repositories. This reality
promotes spreading identity attributes across information systems and landscaping identity silos. Many
security use cases require identity silos consolidation that can be set through identity aggregation. In this
paper, we explain within identity management parlance and compare between attributes aggregation
conceptual models: meta-centralization, virtual-centralization, and identity federation. We propose also a
framework would help organizations to conduct implementation projects of attributes aggregation. A
great attention should be paid simultaneously to strategic purpose, aggregation models, architectures, and
implementations.
Keywords:
Identity aggregation project framework, meta-centralization, virtual-centralization, and identity
federation.
