Session Abstract

In 2013, Portland State had one Identity and Access Management (IAM) administrator and a weekly meeting of interested folks to coordinate the many issues that came up. Over the last 4 years we have built out our IAM environment into an ecosystem of interrelated products and robust integrations consisting of open source and commercial products. We now have a team of 4 under the guidance of our Associate Director, who actively develop solutions to the larger issues instead of just responding to individual issues.

Learn about:

• Drivers for creating a full IAM team


• Scope of work/influence including service accounts, privileged accounts, Single Sign-On, and Multifactor Authentication


• Interactions between IAM team and system administrators, ERP team, and security team


• Problems we encountered along the way


• Current state of PSU IAM


• Future roadmap for PSU IAM, including move towards identity first architecture