The University of Colorado at Boulder is solving critical identity and access-management challenges with HP OpenView Select Access. The solution is at the heart of the university's new CUAccess service, which provides a common access-management resource that university departments can use to authenticate and authorize users for access to Web-based applications and services. The new platform also helps the school meet federal regulations (under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) for data and privacy security for student information.
Organization need
Provide simple, secure, and specific access and identity management for
campus web resources
Give individual departmental web managers flexible authorization management
Deploy a centralized authentication and authorization solution that easily adapts to the university's pre-existing
directory schema
Solution overview
Create CUAccess based on HP OpenView Select Access to provide secure,
role-based access to Web resources
Develop an efficient deployment strategy using Select Access agent and
Application Programming Interface to link to Kerberos Authentication Server
back end
Results
Helped UCB meet federal regulations for data and privacy security for
student information under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
(FERPA)
Preserved investment in Enterprise Directory and other identity management
infrastructure components with flexible HP OpenView Select Access
Provided a single sign-on for secure, convenient access to multiple Web resources
Increased the UCB's ability to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing student
population, allowing dynamic access
to resources based on a student's identity and academic program selection
Saved time by allowing delegation of access decisions to departmental Website managers
