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

• 2020-02-03: Released 0.10.0 mainly with improvements for monitoring and logging and various bug fixes

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
• Password self-service web application
• Compatible to all LDAP enabled applications without complicated client-side schema mapping
• Two-factor authentication integrated with LDAP, usable by any LDAP enabled application
• High availability out-of-the-box with LDAP server replicas
• Automated installation of turnkey solution with ansible
• TLS everywhere
• Service hardening out-of-the-box (e.g. with AppArmor)

Find longer introductions: Æ-DIR conference presentations.