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Identity Management Consulting

Identity Management projects are unique, they touch every part of your enterprise. Having an Identity Management tool is good but not the first step. We often seen projects fail because the infrastructure is not ready.

Otecia International is an end-to-end Identity Management and Federated Identity consulting company. Otecia International offers the following:
 Requirement Analysis
We help you identify the day-to-day process, enterprise hire and fire procedures, delegated admin model, ACL, define the enterprise Digital Identity profile, Extranet and intranet requirements. Our process includes the definition of an employee, customer, vendor and partner.
 System Design and Architectures
We work with you to design a solution that is scalable, secure and meets your enterprise Architecture.
Our design takes into consideration the following:
 
  • Types of the digital identities
  • Application access
  • Levels of security
  • Failover and redundancy
 
 LDAP/Directory Design
LDAP is usually used as the data store for digital identities, most enterprise Identity Management integrate well with the leading LDAP vendors, but some tools uses SQL databases to store identities. There is no right or wrong answer regarding the Datastore, each solution is different and we have to make sure that your data store is ready to store identities.
Our LDAP experts will make sure that your LDAP store is ready and secure, we can introduce partitions or replication to meet your requirements.
We cautious customers that not every Network engineer is an LDAP consultant, it requires special skills to design LDAPs for Digital Identities solutions.
The size of LDAP is very important, our extensive experience with the LDAP vendors has enables us to fine tune LDAP stores for Digital Identity use.
Due to some limitations with some tools in the market, we developed different designs as a result of the number or digitals identities and LDAP objects.
Our extensive experience has enables us to normalize LDAP objects and utilize relationship to reduce Digital Identities profile. Keep in mind that Digital Identities are used in Single-Sign-On (SSO) and application access, therefore, we must eliminate any overheard.
 Installation and configuration
Otecia International has Senior consultants that are experts in Identity Management technologies. Our partnership with the Leading Identities Management companies has enabled us to deliver the best services in the industry.
Our consultants are CISSP, MCSE, OCNP, CNE certified and have extensive experience working with identity management projects.
We will help you installing the solution in the Development, Test, and Staging environment.
Otecia International has developed its own migration tools to help migrate solutions between different environment.
 Customization
In some cases, Identity Management tools will not meet 100% of your security and identity management requirements.
Otecia International has a development team that can customize code to meet customers requirements.
As part of installing an enterprise solution, we must integrate the IDM tool into the enterprise architecture, therefore, we must have connectors and plugins. Most IDM vendors has out of the box connectors and plugin for the major software out there in the market. But not all of them. Otecia International has developed several connectors and can reuse some of the code to save you time and money.
Stylesheet customization. This is very important and will blend in the new tools into the organization's look and feel. In addition, we have found that in some cases it is more cost effective to embed some of the customization in the Stylesheets
 Production roll out and testing
Otecia International will work with you to ensure a successful production roll out. Our team will accommodate your internal procedures and will work off hours to migrate the solution to production.
Otecia International has developed some migration tools to help migrate configuration and code from development or staging to production. The tool has been a key factor to migrate solution in a short period to meet deadline or short maintenance windows.
Execute the test plan. Otecia International often recommend that the customer execute the test plan to ensure independent certification of its solution, however, Otecia will develop the test plan as a result of the requirement gathering phase.
 Documentation and training
Otecia International can customize training for different levels of users
 
Requirement Analysis
We help you identify the day-to-day process, enterprise hire and fire procedures, delegated admin model, ACL, define the enterprise Digital Identity profile, Extranet and intranet requirements. Our process includes the definition of an employee, customer, vendor and partner.
 System Design and Architectures
We work with you to design a solution that is scalable, secure and meets your enterprise Architecture.
Our design takes into consideration the following:
 
  • Types of the digital identities
  • Application access
  • Levels of security
  • Failover and redundancy
 LDAP / Directory Design
LDAP is usually used as the data store for digital identities. Most enterprise Identity Management solutions integrate well with the leading LDAP vendors (Active Directory / AD / ADAM, IBM Tivoli Directory, Novell eDirectory, Novell Virtual Directory, OpenLDAP, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Virtual Directory, SunONE Directory / JSDS), but some tools use SQL databases to store identities. There is no right or wrong answer regarding the datastore.
Our LDAP experts will make sure that your LDAP store is ready and secure, we can introduce partitions or replication to meet your requirements.
We cautious customers that not every network engineer is an LDAP consultant. It requires special skills to design LDAPs for Digital Identities solutions.
Correct sizing of an LDAP store is very important. Our extensive experience with the LDAP vendors have enabled us to fine-tune LDAP stores for Digital Identity use.
Due to some limitations with existing market tools, we developed vendor-specific designs.
Our extensive experience has enabled us to normalize LDAP objects and utilize relationships to reduce the Digital Identity profile footprint to improve data access performance.
 Installation and configuration
Otecia International offers senior consultants and architects who are experts in Identity Management technologies. Our partnership with the leading identities management vendors has enabled us to deliver top-quality consulting services in the industry.
Our consultants are CISSP, MCSE, OCNP, CNE certified and have extensive experience working with identity management projects.
We will assist you with the cross-environment migration process to implement an Identity Management solution from development to staging to QA to production roll-outs.
Otecia International has developed industry-recognized migration tools to help migrate solutions between different environments.
 Customizations
In some cases, Identity Management tools will not meet 100% of your security and identity management requirements.
Otecia International has a development team that deliverd custom-built connectors and plug-ins to meet customers requirements.
As part of installing an enterprise solution, we must integrate the IdM tools into the enterprise architecture The majority of the IdM vendors offer out-of-the-box connectors and plug-ins to integrate with various software solitons. Otecia International has developed several connectors and can reuse code to save you time and money.
 Production roll out and testing
Otecia International will work with you to ensure a successful production roll-out. Our team will accommodate your internal procedures and will work with your migration schedule to implement the solution into production.
Otecia International has developed tools to help migrate configuration and custom plug-ins / connectors from development or staging into production. Our tools have played a key role to speed the migration process to meet project deadlines and fit into short maintenance windows.
Execute the test plan. Otecia International often recommends that the customer execute the test plan to ensure independent certification of its solution. Otecia International will develop the test plan as a result of the requirement gathering phase.
 Documentation and training
Otecia International can customize training for different levels of users
This can include end users training and administrators.
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