IAM PI-14 Underway - Sprint 1 Complete

April 25, 2018
PI 14-1

Identity and Access Management has begun the 14th consecutive quarter of planning and commitments. This quarter we have committed to 17 items across 4 categories: Customer Commitments (5 items), Stability (5 items), Cloud (4 items), and Stability (3 items). Sprint 1 is now complete and included the deployment of an upgrade to a key Authentication component IDP. Further details are as follows:

Changes to Commitments in Sprint 1

  • In Progress items (8 commitments)
    • O365 Self Service Opt-In Stabilization for Students
    • Improvement for Authentication (CAS Server)
    • IAM Database to the Cloud
    • Authentication Environment Updates
    • Provision HU-LDAP branch
    • AuthLDAP branch to Unified LDAP (SHA-1 only)
    • Optimize IIQ deployments (Cloud Formation templates)
    • IIQ Upgrade

The full list of Commitments and status below:

#
Q'4 Posture
Feature
Value Statement
Due
Status
Category
1
Carryover
Improvement for Authentication (IDP)
Upgrade a core component of Authentication infrastructure
4/18
Complete
Stability
2
Commit
O365 Self Service Opt-In Stabilization for Students
Ensure smooth rollout and adoption of newly released Office365 opt-in feature
 
In Progress
Customer Commitment
3
Commit
Improvement for Authentication (CAS Server)
To allow decommissioning of Auth-LDAP servers application registrations must move to a new branch in Unified LDAP
5/3
In Progress
Stability
4
Commit
IAM Database to the Cloud
Successfully move all write applications to point to IAM Database in the cloud.
6/1-3
In Progress
Cloud
5
Commit
Authentication Environment Updates
To support server decommissioning, provide enhanced services, and modernize technologies determine a strategy to upgrade Auth infrastructure this Fiscal Year
 
In Progress
Improvement
6
Commit
Provision HU-LDAP branch
To allow decommissioning of HU-LDAP servers IIQ must provision a new branch in Unified LDAP
 
In Progress
Cloud
7
Commit
Provision a group to University AD for Papercut application
Enable the FAS printing service (Papercut) migration before June 15 2018
 
To do
Customer Commitment
8
Commit
AuthLDAP branch to Unified LDAP (SHA-1 only)
To support ITS' autoreg application move the AuthLDAP user branch from legacy host to new Unified LDAP
 
In Progress
Cloud
9
Commit
Optimize IIQ deployments (Cloud Formation templates)
Establish a more automated deployment process for IIQ to reduce operational risk during deployment.
 
In Progress
Improvement
10
Commit
Deprovision users in University Active Directory using grace and speration rules
Support email short-term Out of Office message for separated users. Ensure security with the cleanup of permissions on accounts.
 
To do
Customer Commitment
11
Commit
Provisioning access for users who are Withdrawn, Not Registered and Leave of Absence
Automates enforcement of FAS On-Leave Policy for extended access to accounts and services.
 
To do
Customer Commitment
12
Commit
IIQ Upgrade
Ensure ongoing vendor support and lay the foundation for improved core provisioning functionality and feedback, such as tightly interacting with 0365.
 
In Progress
Stability
13
Commit
Review and Address HK Self Service user improvements
Ensure all users can interact with all site functionality effectively.
 
To do
Customer Commitment
14
Commit
DUO update user alias and user information from HarvardKey self-service
Expand the set of usernames to enable two factor authentication for other services like O365
 
To do
Stability
15
Commit
Scramble (or lock) Students who didn't enable MFA
Finish the last population of users
 
To do
Stability
16
Commit
Move XID schema to the Cloud
As part of IAM commitment to move our IAM Database to the cloud, the XID application will be the first to write directly to the Cloud RDS instance in Production.
 
To do
Cloud
17
Commit
Work with Security to define the OU provisioning strategy for UNIVAD for future implementation
Define a future model that will meet University AD needs in a scalable and secure fashion
 
To do
Improvement
18
Commit
Grouper does not include people when an active role is added, if person had no prior active roles
Mitigates group membership integrity issue. Prevents seemingly random people from not accessing applications and un-needed time spent supporting these instance
 
To do
Stability

Operational Statistics

Sprint

Harvard Keys Claimed

# Changes Processed

Application Onboarding Service Now Tasks

# Tickets Updated

# Tickets Resolved

# Tickets Open

Duplicate / Overwritten IDs

Priority 1 & 2 Incidents

In-Flight Completed In-Flight Completed
1: 4/13 - 4/24 1,885 7 14 8 14 20 1071 410 191 9 n/a
2: 4/25 - 5/8                      
3: 5/9 - 5/22                      
4: 5/23 - 6/5                      
5: 6/6 - 6/19                      
6: 6/20 - 7/3                      
Quarterly Total 1,885 7 - 8 - 20 1,071 410 - 9 0
Fiscal Year to Date (6/28/17 - now) 44,530 194 - 154 - 350 22,949 11,330 - 222 22

 

 

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