Towards Enhancing Enterprise Information Systems Security Using Cryptography-Based Identity Management
| LONGE Olumide (PhD) ICITD, Southern University, USA This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it OYEBODE Oladapo Olamide University of Ibadan, Nigeria This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it | OLASENI Olatunde Refus Giwa Polytechnic, Nigeria
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OLANIYAN Olatayo Bells University of Technology, Nigeria This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Purpose
Our research is aimed at addressing these challenges by building on existing identity management technologies through the creation of a hybrid technology using Identity Management and Cryptographic techniques
Design/methodology/approach
We integrate Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Federation identity management technologies with Cryptography.
Findings
The approach produced a hybrid technology that will provide a high-level security for identity data.
Research implications
The resultant system is a platform that is highly effective in the management of users’ identity data across multiple systems and applications within an enterprise
Practical and Policy implications
The system ensures reliable sharing of users’ information among enterprises.
Three Learning Points for Ghana and Africa
The methodology can be adapted to deal with any instance of the problem in regions where identity management and sharing is a challenge.
Keywords: Enterprises, Identity Management, Identity Management Technology, Cryptography
Longe, O.B (PhD) directs the Cybercrime Institute ICITD, Southern University Baton Rouge. He is also on Faculty at the Department of Computer Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the Editor for the African Journal for Information Systems Special Issue on Cybercrime. He can be reached by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
