Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Account Provisioning

I spend a good deal of my time dealing with this. It's amazing, if you have security restrictions on a site, how much change there is. In our case, we have about 30 requests in the queue at any time which result in about 200 provisioning actions each work day. The changes are mostly authorization rather than authentication. That is, existing users getting additional authorization in the system or having their authorization removed. I have developed tools which help with the provisioning and we are working on additional automation, but it is amazing the volume of changes.

Be prepared if you have secure sections on your site. Make sure that you have allocated enough time to provision these accounts in a timely manner. Be aware that things change--constantly.

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