Implementation
of Corporate Identity Management
Project for Hong Kong Housing
Authority
Client:
Hong Kong Housing
Authority
Challenge:
The project is aimed to improve
cost-efficiency and security of
corporate identity management for Hong
Kong Housing Authority (HKHA).
Solution:
ELM, the ASL Group's subsidiary, helped
HKHA adopt a single sign-on technology
to provide a better and cost effective
user ID management scheme. ELM provided
professional services in the system
design, project management and
consultation for a centralized identity
management solution for HKHA.
Benefits:
With the centralized identity management
solution, HKHA's overall administrative
workload and helpdesk support demand are
reduced. The IT resources can then be
deployed for the HKHA to focus on other
application development.
For a long time, identity (ID)
management and access control were
handled by various individual
application systems using disparate
security policies at the Hong Kong
Housing Authority (HKHA). Thousands of
users IDs and passwords were generated,
and different measures of access control
were used for over 9,000 HKHA staff and
more than 500 business partners to
access systems across various IT
platforms. To access these applications
and information, the users were required
to enter different IDs/passwords.
Considering the administration cost and
effort required for managing multiple
user IDs/passwords, the HKHA decided to
initiate a Corporate Identity Management
Project (CIDMP) to provide a better and
cost-effective user ID management
scheme.
Provision of
Centralized Identity Management Solution
After reviewing HKHA's situation, ELM,
the ASL Group's subsidiary, implemented
a centralized identity management
solution and provided system design,
project management and consultation for
HKHA. ELM supplied and installed high
performance IBM pSeries 615 servers to
lay down a reliable and scalable
platform. ELM also provided systems
integration of a suite of IBM Tivoli
software into the IBM WebSphere
Application Server. The Web single
sign-on technology was deployed to
provide seamless authentication access
to multiple applications through a
common security infrastructure.
Single
interface enables centralized control of
security and simplified management
Upon the implementation of the solution,
a secure, automated and policy-based
user management process is in place to
help increase HKHA users' productivity.
The users can get access to various
applications securely with one single
user ID/password. They are also enabled
to perform password resets and
synchronization by themselves, reducing
the overall administrative workload and
helpdesk support demand. The solution
can automate the processing of
administrative request and facilitate
the management of user IDs. With a
centralized control of security and
consistent policy to be implemented
across HKHA, the organization security
level is enhanced.
