Authorized Entities Directory

The agile IAM for DevOps

Authorized Entities Directory (Æ-DIR) is a Privileged Identity and Access Management (IAM/PIM/PAM) based on OpenLDAP

News:

• 2019-02-03 -- 5 min. talk at FOSDEM 2019: slapdcheck -- Monitoring OpenLDAP with Python
• 2019-01-16 -- upcoming talk at BS-LUG, Braunschweig
• 2018-12-16 -- pushed several repos to project group ae-dir on GitLab
• 2018-12-13 -- German slides available of Æ-DIR talk at KA-IT-SI, Karlsruhe

Main Objectives

• Strictly follow need to know and least privilege principles
• Agile data maintenance by consequent delegation of manageable small areas
• Provide meaningful audit trails for compliance checks
• Secure defaults

Key Features

• Fine-grained authorization
• Fine-grained delegation, ready-to-use role-model
• Role separation, multiple accounts per person
• Secure password handling, SSH key distribution
• Compatible to all LDAP enabled applications
• Two-factor authentication integrated with LDAP
• High availability out-of-the-box with LDAP server replicas
• TLS everywhere
• Service hardening out-of-the-box

Find longer introductions: Æ-DIR conference presentations.