What is DotNetNuke (DNN) User Provisioning and Sync?
SCIM, or System for Cross-domain Identity Management, is an open standard that allows for the automation of user provisioning. User provisioning and sync is the process of creating, reading, and updating a user's account information and access policies for multiple applications and systems simultaneously. Users are given the adequate amount of access and permissions based on their role and duties within an organization. User provisioning maintains security and compliance standards while ensuring that the employees have just the right level of access to the organization's resources to carry out their set of tasks. Effective user provisioning helps organizations manage user accounts efficiently while reducing the risk of security breaches brought on by unauthorized access.
How does DotNetNuke SCIM Provisioning / Deprovisioning Works?
The provisioning and de-provisioning of user identities can be automated with SCIM, and it also involves the process of creating, updating, and removing user accounts across a number of different applications and systems. It is an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution that handles the management and upkeep of a user's identity and user attributes in connection to gaining access to resources offered by one or more systems.
SCIM is a REST and JSON-based protocol that defines a client and server role. An identity provider (IDP), which contains user identities, is typically a client. A SaaS software, such as your DotNetNuke (DNN) website, that requires a portion of the data from those identities is known as a Service Provider (SP). According to the SCIM protocol, if an identity is created, updated, or deleted in the IdP (identity provider), the changes are automatically synced to the service provider (SP).
User Provisioning with identity providers
User Provisioning Benefits
Automate Provisioning
SCIM reduces the chance of error while automating the provisioning and deprovisioning procedure
Seamless Access
End users have easy access to the applications they are responsible for using, with the most recent permissions and profile information.
Improved Security
Improved security and reduced costs by eliminating the possibility of idle user accounts and unauthorized information access
Communicate Across Platforms
User information is communicated between applications in a standard manner and is stored consistently
Easy Onboarding & Offboarding
Benefits to an organization include easy onboarding/offboarding of employees as well as streamlined user lifecycle management across applications.
Multi-site Provisioning & Deprovisioning
Save customer's time and effort by handling tasks such as maintenance and upgrades, allowing multiple clients to share resources, reducing the infrastructure cost.
Features
Acts as SCIM Client
A SCIM Client is an application that contains the user information. It performs the CRUD operations and sends the updated user data to servers based on the operations performed at its end
Acts as SCIM Server
A SCIM server is an application that communicates with data sources that hold user information. Exposing the CRUD capabilities to the clients & with the incoming requests, performing those actions
Automate User Lifecycle
SCIM enables automating the user lifecycle management process by creating, updating, and removing user data or information in connected applications
Real-time Provisioning
Provisioning of users and roles as soon as the CRUD operations are performed. This allows all the new incoming users to be in sync with the SCIM server
Role based Provisioning
Role-based provisioning allows you to create or update a group of users on the DotNetNuke (DNN) site from the server or provider and assign a specific role to the users together.
Provider Specific Provisioning
Provisioning to the applications that provide APIs instead of/in addition to SCIM, for the CRUD operations on Users and Roles. Some of the most popular providers are: Azure, Salesforce, Okta, etc
Import and Export Users
This feature of the DotNetNuke User Provisioning module allows you to import/export users to and from the DNN site in bulk. The users can be imported or exported in .json and .csv formats
Provisioning-On-Demand
Perform provisioning of the user or role on the fly. Any user information can be provisioned as and when required, and can be used for troubleshooting as well
Login Support
Securely login the user into your DotNetNuke (DNN) application depending on the details received from the provider and save the user profile into your database
User Provisioning Supported Operations
Create Users
Automatically create users in DotNetNuke (DNN) using attributes like first name, last name and other data provided by the identity provider (IDP).
Update Users
When a user is updated in the IDP (identity provider), all the properties except email and username are updated on the DotNetNuke (DNN) website.
Delete Users
Users who are deleted from the identity provider (IDP) are also deleted from your DotNetNuke applications' user list.
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