Documents Contributed by ECAR, Identity Management, and Research Bulletins

This bulletin is a companion to Campus IT Security: Governance, Strategy, Policy, and Enforcement, ECAR's 2006 bulletin (No. 17) by the same authors. Security technologies provide various types of protection to the campus, including technologies that secure the network, control access, encrypt data, facilitate backups, provide virus protection, and supply enterprise directory services. This research bulletin focuses on the emerging set of technologies that fall under the broad category of identify management. It is based on a literature review, campus interviews, and the firsthand experience of the authors.

To manage today's complex set of networked relationships and processes a new category of service provider is emerging—the identity service provider. Higher education has many needs for identity services. This Research Bulletin describes the current efforts under way as well as the reasons that higher education must begin actively managing identity. Implementing identity services in higher education will impact policies, procedures, and services.