PostNL deals in letters, parcels and everything related to letters and parcels. PostNL is with 60.000 employees and 3.4 billion of revenues the leader in The Netherlands and PostNL also works in Belgium, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. Volumes in the letters business are declining and therefor cost cutting and having flexibility in cost both in Business and in IT are a key target for PostNL. For this reason, PostNL announced a 100% go to Cloud strategy where execution will be finished by the end of 2015 by migrating all on-premise hosted applications to the Cloud: "from on-premise/customized to cloud-based/standardized IT".
Identity and Access Management is an essential part of the security domain within the PostNL Cloud Orchestration Kernel to facilitate the 100% Cloud Strategy and to comply to security standards and certifications for ‘securing the cloud’. Through the IAM project Identity and Access Management is implemented for PostNL employees using the services of the IDaaS provider iWelcome – so a cloud service in itself. This full IDaaS service includes amongst others: availability of all employee identities, a login page including (two factor) user authentication, a portal (launch pad) for cloud application, user provisioning and authentication to relying parties, single sign-on/log-off and self service.
Generally speaking there are five main areas in Identity Management being: (1) Identity Governance (business processes around so-called authoritative sources like SAP HR); (2) Identity Provisioning; (3) Identity Authentication and Access Management and (4) Application Authorization (business logic in the destination applications).
Theo Punter will share his experiences with the audience about implementing IDAAS for the enterprise.
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