employee authentication services (eas) a potential pan-government service chief information officer...
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Employee Authentication Services (EAS)
A potential pan-government service
Chief Information Officer Group (CIOG) – DCSF
EAS – Scope and target benefits
Scope
A scalable, sustainable and secure solution for local government employees to access sensitive information in central government systems:
– Ready to roll out from November 2008
– Scalable and flexible to support multiple applications across government
– Endorsed and security accredited as a core shared government asset
– Set-up funded by DCSF and CLG
– DCSF acting as “driving customer”
Target Benefits Avoid the need for employees to use multiple authentication processes/tokens Support greater collaboration/joint working for the benefit of citizens, children, learners Provide cross government aligned processes and systems for secure sharing/
accessing of sensitive data Improve efficiency through re-use within central and local government Consistent with pan-government policies and architecture (PSIT, xGEA)
Project development since March 2007
Completed high level solution architecture – Design reviewed with CJIT, GG and ContactPoint and endorsed by Cross Gov CIO
Council
Evaluation of assets against requirements– GG, CJIT, NHS and market sounding
– Response to invitation to participate from GG and CJIT
Local Authorities positively engaged– 11 early adopter LAs on working groups (Registration and operation)
Sub-group reports defining policy on key areas– Registration, Operational Impact, Trust and Sustainability
Full business case and evaluation of proposals completed end November
Government Gateway appointed to develop components of solution
ContactPoint
Brent LA
Becta
Gov Connect
EDT
DCSF (Tim Wright)
CLG(Roy Marshall)
EAS Project Board
EAA Working Group
CIO/CTO Council (Kevin
Murphy)
SRO
CLG/DCSF CoIworking group
Operational model &
implementation guide
Policy on min registration procedures
Achieving shared trust
Sustainability and migration
Salford+6
LeGSBHants
NewhamBrent
NHS; CSIADCSFCESG
Gov Connect
CLG DCSFEDTDWP
LAs: SalfordNewhamSt HelensHertsDerbyshireHantsLeeds
London ConnectsLeGSB
DWPCabinet Office / eDTNHSMinistry of Justice / CJITMoDCSIA / CESGBecta
EAS Governance
DWP(Kenny
Robertson)
How will the solution look?
LA
LA
LA
LA
NHS
SharedIdentityProviderService(IDP)
Own IDPService
Own IDPService
AuthenticationBroker
DCSF Applications
DWP Applications
Othercentral govt
apps
Quick and sim
ple inte
gration
Common Trust Framework (rules & standards)
Integration support forcentral government services
Central Hub
Registration Authority (LA or National Partner)
Authentication Broker
Shared Identity Provider
Service ProviderService Provider
AccountAttributesS
ervi
ce
AdministratorAdministrator
Identity checking
Issue credentials
Registration systems
Store Attributes
User Authentication
Web service portal
Service Integration Support
Application integration
service
People andprocesses
Test environment
provision
Broker service Gateway
service
Components of the solution
People andprocesses
People andprocesses
Existing Government Gateway platforms
New Government Gateway capability