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Problem

HSPC user accounts have not historically not been centrally managed. This cannot continue for , with individual services maintaining their own user database for which it was authoritative. While this is a normal for startup-phase organizations, it becomes immensely problematic during growth. Core symptoms of poor IAM include:

Confusing and onboarding staff and members. (E.g. "Oh, to access service X, email Y.") 

Inconsisten

Inability to fully disable accounts. 

Objectives

For HSPC to mature and grow, a centralized IAM system became necessary. 

• Establish an single sign-on (SSO) authority upon which all “Platform” systems, tools, and services may authenticate and authorize users.
• Allow HSPC staff to centrally manage member and non-member access to digital content in services in a role-based, manner.
• Provide a standards-based identity provider (IDP) for partners and cloud services to support HSPC member logins into 3rd-party systems.
• Enable integrated account self-service for administrative membership functions.

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