Information Access

“Information access” comprises a set of tools, technologies, and business processes involved in maintaining accurate directory (generally non-demographic) data about employees, students, and other affiliated people; managing their access privileges to network and system resources; and doing both in the contexts of information security and privacy. 

Strategic directions

1. Employees, students, and employee and student groups have personalized, granular, and secure access to exactly the resources they need.
2. The KUMC portal myKUMC becomes the primary mechanism for secure access to local web resources requiring authentication.
3. Extend myKUMC access to former students and alumni.
4. Implement local (KUMC) digital signatures for all members of the KUMC community who use personal computing devices and enable national/international signatures.
5. Facilitate inter-campus resource access with KU Lawrence.

Major objectives (an objective is ongoing if not target deadline is included)

• IA-1: Develop a PKI-based authentication, authorization, workflow and digital signing infrastructure for both internal and external use by the summer of 2008. (This objective directly supports objectives CC-1 and AS-9). (CSP, JW, MF)
• IA-2: Implement the ability to create and maintain groups based on roles or characteristics of individuals in our central directory services by July 2008.  Implement the ability to create and maintain ad hoc groups on demand by late 2008. (CSP)
• IA-3: Enable faculty and staff to update certain parts of their online directory information (for example, preferred form of name, office phone number, pager number) via a portal-based form by July 2008. (CSP, JW)
• IA-7: Develop a new online phone directory that will get its information directly from the Meta-tree rather than from a separate phone directory database by July 2008. (CSP, JW)