Access Management in the Backbone
The customer: > 500 employees
The general conditions:
A regulation for controlled access to defined network areas (routers, switches) of a network component infrastructure in the backbone network with several thousand devices had to be created.
The client’s requirements:
The access rights should be assigned and implemented according to the areas of responsibility in the specialist departments in the central user management system (Identity & Access Management). Depending on the user’s activities, it should only be possible to access the network components released in the central user administration with the appropriate rights.
The optimization of system availability and redundancies as well as accelerated takeover by a second system in the event of a fault (failover) of the existing access control system rounded off the requirements.
The role of the consultant:
Requirements and project management
The tasks of the consultant:
- Compilation of the requirements
- Identification of project stakeholders
- Creation of a coordinated requirements document
- Assumption of responsibility for project management, taking into account a parallel project , which was a prerequisite for the implementation of this project
The result:
As part of the multi-project management provided, attention was paid to the systemic cooperation of the existing and the newly created IT interfaces. The developers deployed were successfully motivated to work together and cleanly to link the IT systems.
Capacities were increased, the existing TACACS server landscape was expanded and additional load balancers were set up as planned.
Advisor’s Comment:
We have succeeded in building a functioning and unique constellation between the interconnected IT systems. One of the challenges in the project was to prepare tens of thousands of data in such a way that they corresponded to the current status of the hardware components in the backbone network.
We have also provided the data with additional information, transferred it to a user management system and successfully migrated it to the appropriate user profiles.
We would be happy to provide you with further information in a personal conversation.
In this regard, please contact Mr. Thomas Scislowski.
Phone: +49 (0) 2131 70 840 30
Email: kontakt@scillcon.com
