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, Filed Under: TIM Release Notes

Release Notes – uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) – 2019.8.1

On July 30th, 2019, the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team will release uTexas Identity Manager (TIMTIM The uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) is the University’s identity manager. See uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) in the service catalog for more information.) 2019.8.1. This release will add additional capabilities to the REST APIAPI An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications., send additional data to Active Directory for usage by the physical access control system, and fix an outdated URLURL A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A typical URL could have the form http://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (http), a host name (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html). Also sometimes referred to as a web address. on the UT Self Help page.

To learn more about uTexas Identity Manager (TIM), please visit the TIM service page.

, Filed Under: Announcements, Authentication, Enterprise Authentication Changelog

ITS Campus Solutions is Consolidating to Standards-Based Enterprise Authentication

What is changing and why?

The Identity and Access Management (IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.) team is deprecating the agent-based authenticationAuthentication Authentication is the act of determining that a person is who they claim to be. For more information, see our Concepts page. model and adopting standards-based web authentication.

For UT servers and applications using UTLogin, this will involve transitioning to a new Enterprise Authentication service, which provides Security Assertion Markup Language (SAMLSAML Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a standard, XML-based language for exchanging authentication and authorization data between identity providers and service providers. This standard is currently used by Enterprise Authentication (as well as hundreds of service providers that integrate with our identity provider). 2).

The goal of this change is to provide a standards-based authentication method. SAML 2 represents established industry standards, which the majority of software vendors support. Additionally, having fewer authentication methods means a better single sign-on experience and faster integrations.

The IAM team will begin contacting UTLogin customers to develop transition plans in June 2019.

How will this affect me?

For most people who use protected websites and applications, the transition to Enterprise Authentication will not require any attention or action. There may be small changes to the look and feel of the login screens; but, overall, the login process will be the same. Some end users may be asked to authenticate multiple times as our authentication customers migrate to the new service.

This change primarily impacts individuals who manage servers and web applications that use UTLogin. In order to focus on the transition to Enterprise Authentication, the IAM Team will no longer provision new Web Policy Agents (WPAs). Support for existing WPA and SAML customers will not be affected.

The IAM team has been working to develop processes to support transitioning customers to Enterprise Authentication. This includes documentation, training, and outreach. These efforts will continue and become more detailed over the coming months.

Questions?

Review our project page: Transition to Enterprise Authentication Project

Please send questions to: entauthn@utlists.utexas.edu

, Filed Under: SailPoint IIQ Release Notes

Release Notes – SailPoint Identity IQ (IIQ) – Version 2019.7.2

On Wednesday, 07/10/2019, the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team will release SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQIIQ SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) is a group- and role-based authorization management service. See Identity Lifecycle Management for more information.) 2019.7.2 to clean up stale group memberships in the directory services and allow UT System to assign official visitor affiliations for non UT Austin employees.

To learn more about SailPoint IIQ, please visit the SailPoint IIQ service page.

, Filed Under: SailPoint IIQ Release Notes

Release Notes – SailPoint Identity IQ (IIQ) – Version 2019.7.1

On Friday morning, 06/28/2019, the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team will release SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQIIQ SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) is a group- and role-based authorization management service. See Identity Lifecycle Management for more information.) 2019.7.1 which is a follow-on release in support of 2019.7.0’s use of Workday for employee office addresses.

To learn more about SailPoint IIQ, please visit the SailPoint IIQ service page.

, Filed Under: SailPoint IIQ Release Notes

Release Notes – SailPoint Identity IQ (IIQ) – Version 2019.7.0

On Wednesday morning, 06/26/2019, the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team will release SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQIIQ SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) is a group- and role-based authorization management service. See Identity Lifecycle Management for more information.) 2019.7.0 to start sending Workday office addresses for employees to downstream systems such as TEDTED The uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) is the University’s enterprise directory. See uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) in the service catalog for more information. and Active Directory. In this release, we’ll also begin publishing department information from Workday for future employees to the public directory

To learn more about SailPoint IIQ, please visit the SailPoint IIQ service page.