Rowland Nicholson, Caterpillar, Inc.
Case study of how Caterpillar used identity virtualization to aggregate, correlate and remap identities to create virtual views, enabling each application to have the required identity information on demand.
9. Caterpillar Non-Confidential9 Global Information Systems
Enterprise Directory
XISO Doc’s
YTurbines
DB Accounts
Radius
Server
Virtual Directory
solarid = ‘D’+ badgenumber
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Enterprise Directory
F1
“Flexible”
F2
“Finicky”
Virtual Directory
+4 virtual attributes
department
entryUUID
member
memberOf
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Enterprise Directory
F2
“Finicky”
Virtual Directory
ou=groups ou=groups
ou=autogen
ou=dynamic
ou=groups
F1
“Flexible”
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APPLICATIONS:
F2
“Finicky”
F1
“Flexible”
IAM
Virtual attributes
Dynamic groups
Virtual DIT/Schema
Federated
New
Upgrades
Legacy
LDAP
WS
SAML WS-Fed
OAuth
OpenID Connect
WAM