Identity and Access Management for Remote Maintenance Services in Business Networks

Abstract

Access to information systems across corporate boundaries with high demands to privacy and trust result into ambitious research and development targets. This study provides motivation and a roadmap for approaching integrated security management solutions in a business network of partners with heterogeneous ICT and security infrastructures. We aim at describing specifics of identity and access management in inter-organizational collaboration, and a vision and arguments for identity and access management in a business network. A case study with Metso Paper, Inc., the leading manufacturer of paper machinery and related services, validates the results, thus providing a motivating example of the possibilities of e-services.

A Security Framework for Smart Ubiquitous Industrial Resources

“…For example, a business of remote maintenance services in the pulp&paper industry may serve as a good domain for adopting UBIWARE. In this case, SURPAS will be important for managing access to control systems of maintained machinery equipment [14] in the business network of customers. Another promising application area is a business of decentralized management of power-networks owned by different business actors (see section 4).…”