you might want to look at some of the Netegrity solutions. they've been around for a long time and have imho solid products. Dave Marty wrote: >Hi group, > > >We have a big discussion going on at one of my clients as we are about >to add an Internet portal to several applications. We are looking at >implementing a single sign-on (SSO) solution for our web applications. > > >This discussion is as follow: > >1- Should we buy an already made up single sign-on solution or build one >in house? > >We've met with the people from Tivoli and Computers associates already. >Other suggestions? > >2- What if we go for a temporary in-house solution for next year and get >stuck with it as the portal and the number of applications starts >growing? > >My concern here is the potential of risk being blamed by the auditors >about an in-house development vs a well known product. > >The number of users of the portal will grow in the ten of thousands by >the end of next year. Robustness of the solution should also be a main >factor. > >The security of the project is taken care of by firewall, access list, >DMZ etc. > >The number of different application is already up to ten and the portal >is not even built yet. The deployment of the appliactions (all web >based) should start as early as march 2003. > >Pre-requisites : We have to work with the fact that the environment is >IBM Websphere servers and the fact that we are already using LDAP for >authentication on some applications. No comments on that part please, we >have to live with it... > > > >--- > >Thanks! > >Marty > >****************************************** > >Pensée de la semaine : Comme pour l'esprit, rien n'est trop grand, pour >la bonté, rien n'est trop petit. > >Martin M Samson >Chef de projets, > > > > > -- David M. Williams, CISSP Phone: 505-665-8062 Systems Engineer, CCN-2 Fax: 505-667-7428 Los Alamos National Laboratory Email: d_wllmsat_private
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