This document outlines best practices for designing, installing and rolling out the Hitachi ID Password Manager password management solution in a medium to large organization.
The remainder of this document is organized as follows:
• Project objectives
Clearly identifying the goals of a project which will deploy password management technology.
• Stake-holders
Who to involve in the project and when.
• Design features
How to approach project design and recommended design choices.
• Technical architecture
Recommendations for a network architecture, for server configuration, etc.
• Automatic discovery
Where and how data can be automatically loaded into the password management system, to minimize ongoing administration.
• User education and enrollment
How to inform users about the system and whether / how to prompt users to register personal information.
• Maximizing adoption rates
Strategies to ensure how utilization, to maximize the value of the system.
• Measuring value
How to measure the value of the system.
• Ongoing administration
Overview of how to manage the deployed technology and how to gradually expand the system’s functionality and value.
• Summary
48. Hitachi ID Password Manager Deployment Best Practices
11 Summary
Hitachi ID Password Manager deployment is straightforward and can be completed in a matter of weeks,
typically requiring only a few days of professional services.
Because Password Manager impacts so many groups in an I.T. organization, it is important to have powerful
and visible project sponsorship and to involve all stake-holders as early as possible.
This document outlines numerous best practices regarding technical architecture, security policies, user
enrollment, maximizing user adoption and ongoing administration. These should be taken as guidelines
and combined with specific requirements of each organization to produce an implementation design and
project plan.
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File: /pub/wp/psynch/documents/deploy_practices/deployment_bp_9.tex
Date: 2007-09-12