The Identity Management environment at Griffith University is mature and robust but there was a concern that it was not suitable to accommodate the organisation’s requirements in the future with the advent of cloud computing and virtualisation. The University was determined to undertake a review of the infrastructure and personnel in order to be in a position to exploit new technological opportunities.
The first step was to conduct an Environmental Scan to document the current situation and
understand the interaction of the various components that provided identity management
services to the University.
The next step was the development of the Roadmap document. This required extensive
consultation across the University to understand the organisation and to build support for the
various components of the Roadmap, particularly those that impacted operational departments and faculties.
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The Roadmap highlighted not only the technical requirements of the target solution but the
personnel requirements as well, in order to avoid the situation in which the University was
vulnerable to loss of key personnel.
ICA subsequently assisted with the installation of an advanced federated authentication
infrastructure to accommodate the increasing trend to cloud-based applications..
