Identity as a service-towards a service-oriented identity management architecture

  • Authors:
  • Christian Emig;Frank Brandt;Sebastian Kreuzer;Sebastian Abeck

  • Affiliations:
  • Cooperation & Management, Universitäät Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe;Cooperation & Management, Universitäät Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe;Cooperation & Management, Universitäät Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe;Cooperation & Management, Universitäät Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

  • Venue:
  • EUNICE'07 Proceedings of the 13th open European summer school and IFIP TC6.6 conference on Dependable and adaptable networks and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will form the basis of future information systems. Web services are a promising way to implement SOA enabling the loose coupling of functionality at service interfaces. The focus in SOA changes from traditional software systems to reusable, business-relevant services. Considering the cross-cutting concern of identity management (IdM), it is still an open issue how to construct an SOA-aware IdM architecture enabling "identity as a service" and how to loosely couple the IdM services with SOA's core concern part. In this paper we present a blueprint for a service-oriented identity management architecture featuring interoperability by applying existing standards. Our solution has been tested and evaluated in an implementation case study.