Security Administration Solution or Why We Implemented An Identity Management/Account Provisioning T

Account provisioning is a fairly new buzz word. Account provisioning, also known as employee-provisioning, or EUA (enterprise-user administration), is one of the terms used to describe the creation, maintenance, and deletion of user accounts, password maintenance, and the administration of user access rights. 'By 2004 40 percent of enterprises will implement EUA products to manage their entire business-transaction flow and user-access requirement for Web and non- Web applications according a recent Gartner report.'1 I will present a case study of how our company took the challenge and implemented an account provisioning solution. In order to understand why we decided to seek a provisioning provider I will start with a brief background on how our company created the 'data security' department. Next I will guide you through data security's timeline and research that led to the selection of a provisioning tool. I will then provide you with how we tested and implemented the tool. And finally I will give a synopsis of where we are today.