Implementing Identity Management with BMC Control-SA

Identity Management is a relatively new concept, which aims at solving the issue of centralized access control security administration across multiple platforms and applications. 'Identity Management is essentially an infrastructure that encompasses many technologies from user provisioning to authentication and access management.'1 With centralized security administration one company could enforce a consistent security policy (such as password policy user rights etc) as well as manage user accounts users groups or other entities across the entire enterprise from a central point. This paper is a case study describing how the organization I work for implemented Identity Management using BMC Control-SA product. I will present the situation before and after implementing Control-SA and outline the benefits realized from this implementation. There are several products available aimed at providing similar functionality however this paper is not intended to compare products or provide detailed reasons why this product was chosen over other products.