Speaker
William Claycomb
(Sandia National Labs)
Description
Many large corporations, and many national labs, face increasing challenges related to data access and security. As more applications become integrated with existing data stores, the need to access user and computer account information has grown. Sometimes this information includes personal information or other sensitive components, making data protection and access control two critical aspects to consider when implementing data provider solutions. Additionally, the desire to streamline data access and improve access response times has increased pressure on system administrators to deliver secure and robust data delivery systems. Sandia Labs has addressed these challenges with an integrated solution which provides secure and robust data access, implemented as Virtual Directories, and delivers synchronized directory information to users through the use of Directory Synchronization Services. A virtual directory is a directory data source, accessed using LDAP, which does not actually contain the information presented to the client, but rather presents the data from an underlying data source (another LDAP directory, a database, or a combination of both). Using virtual directories, Sandia opens directory information access to various applications, limiting the content shared to specific data needed by each individual application. This not only protects the information in the directory, but eliminates the need to duplicate subsets of data into customized directory services.
Primary author
William Claycomb
(Sandia National Labs)