Refers to the management of identities in the cloud, apart from the applications and providers that use them and represents an extremely broad term that includes services for software, platform and infrastructure services in both the private and public cloud.
Published in Chapter:
Digital Identity Management in Cloud
Vladimir Vujin (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Konstantin Simić (University of Belgrade, Serbia), and Borko Kovačević (Microsoft, Serbia)
Copyright: © 2014
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5784-7.ch003
Abstract
Existing approaches for management of digital identities within e-learning ecosystems imply defining different access parameters for each service or application. However, this can reduce system security and lead to insufficient usage of the services by end-users. This chapter investigates various approaches for identity management, particulary in a cloud computing environment. Several complex issues are discussed, such as cross-domain authentication, provisioning, multi-tenancy, delegation, and security. The main goal of the research is to provide a highly effective, scalable identity management for end-users in an educational private cloud. A federated identity concept was introduced as a solution that enables organizations to implement secure identity management and to share information on the identities of users in the cloud environment. As a proof of concept, the identity management system was implemented in the e-learning system of Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade.