CMS Identity Management (IDM)
Investment ID: 009-000419507
Overview
Program Title
CMS Identity Management (IDM)
Description
IDM will enable individuals (i.e., internal and external entities to CMS) to gain secure access to over three hundred (300) CMS business applications that consume one or more of the following enterprise identity management services: authentication (i.e., login/registration and multi-factor authentication), authorization, role management, remote identity proofing (RIDP), reporting, help desk, user interface (UI), and lifecycle management.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Associated Websites
https://portal.cms.gov, https://idm.cms.gov, https://impl.idp.idm.cms.gov, https://test.idp.idm.cms.gov, https://dev.idp.idm.cms.gov, https://sandbox.idp.idm.cms.gov/, https://sandbox2.idp.idm.cms.gov/
Investment Detail
Some of the benefits and return on investment include the following: improving the online customer and user experience, architectural flexibility to adjust to industry-standard identity management frameworks, compliance with federal security and privacy policies, and enabling future federation with other federal government, identity management systems. Moreover, IDM provides a solution that is highly available (i.e., through the use of distributed, multiple availability zones in AWS) and which minimizes the overall yearly operations and maintenance costs of onboarding new and existing CMS business applications by leveraging a cloud and API-based platform, thus eliminating the need for a large and costly physical data center presence. Lastly, IDM provides an enterprise-wide identity management solution to CMS business applications, which lowers the overall costs of operating and maintaining multiple and separate identity management services.