BlueX Digital ID Management

Deploying Digital IDs in an organisation can require huge cost and resources and demands a number of issues and consequences to be taken into account. Not only may each organisation have its own infrastructure and organisational workflow in place, but issues such as printing and initialising tokens have to be considered as well. Other important issues that need attention include what to do when a token is lost or what needs to be stored on the token. In short, the whole process of issuing, distributing and managing digital IDs/tokens demands a management system that is not only flexible and easy to use, it needs to seamlessly integrate into the existing company structure as well.

AET's BlueX Digital ID Manager is a complete identity management solution for large and small organisations. BlueX provides an enterprise wide system for token deployment in any given organisation, regardless of the organisational structure. The flexibility of BlueX originates from its component-based design. This allows full configurability of BlueX and ensures that it can be adapted to any existing organisational structure. Using policy and workflow-based structures, BlueX is able to easily manage token distribution as well as perform basic tasks like requesting or renewing a digital ID or personalising a token. BlueX is also fully capable to perform advanced tasks like personalising multiple tokens at once, creating and managing user profiles. These features ensure that the organisation does not need to change its organisational structure in order to use BlueX. BlueX adapts to the organisation and not the other way around, thus limiting the required resources to implement BlueX.

BlueX seamlessly integrates into PKIs from many different vendors, including Microsoft, Entrust Authority, RSA Keon (Certificate Manager), Cybertrust UNICert, VeriSign and Cryptovision. BlueX also integrates with various directory services, such as LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory. The web-based interface of BlueX makes the end user workstation both friendly and recognisable and easy to replace. The BlueX system supports integration with a variety of hardware devices, including smart card printers and different types of smart card readers/writers.

Key features of BlueX Digital ID Manager :

• Adaptability - BlueX can adapt to any existing organisational structure due to its workflow-based structure and high configurability.

• Web-based - BlueX uses a web-based management interface, which allows user locations to be geographically independent.

• Use of Remote ComponentsBlueX can communicate with systems, which are protected by a firewall.

• Extensive CA supportBlueX support all major CAs such as:

  • Microsoft 2000 Enterprise CA;

  • Microsoft 2003 Enterprise CA;

  • VeriSign CA;

  • RSA Keon CA;

  • Entrust 7.x CA;

  • Cybertrust UniCERT;

  • Cryptovision.

• Middleware independent - BlueX is smart card and middleware independent so it will work with any PKCS#11 based middleware.

For enterprises that want to deploy digital IDs it can require huge cost, time, resources and effort. For large enterprises it can be very difficult to implement a system that suits perfectly. In most cases, enterprises that want to implement digital IDs already have some sort of policy regarding password management. Enterprises already have an organisational structure and infrastructure in place so it cannot be changed that easily. Other problems surface when a token has to be issued, distributed and managed. In short, an enterprise needs a system that:

• Requires no additional changes to the existing organisational structure;

• Can leave the existing policies intact e.g. existing username and password policies;

• Is flexible enough so it can be adapted to the organisational needs;

• Has an easy to understand management interface;

• Requires low maintenance;

• Is reliable.

BlueX Digital ID Manager - Enterprise Solution is a complete ID management system. BlueX Enterprise Solution provides an enterprise wide system for easy token deployment in any given organisation, regardless of the existing organisational structure. The flexibility of BlueX Enterprise Solution originates from its component-based design allowing full configurability of BlueX Enterprise Solution. BlueX Enterprise Solution uses a workflow-based structure to easily issue, distribute and manage tokens. BlueX Enterprise Solution is not preconfigured so all options can be self-configured. BlueX Enterprise Solution can easily perform advanced tasks e.g. personalising multiple tokens at once, create and manage user accounts or collect and process data from various existing sources. The web-based interface makes BlueX Enterprise Solution end user workstation friendly and recognisable.

BlueX Enterprise Solution can integrate into PKIs from many vendors, including Microsoft Enterprise CA, Entrust Authority, RSA Keon (Certificate Manager), Verisign and many more. BlueX Enterprise Solution integrates with various directory services such as LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory. The BlueX Enterprise Solution system supports integration with a variety of hardware devices, including smart card printers and different types of smart card readers/writers.