In addition, such extranet implementations require the management of additional users who are not even part of the enterprise. And the relationships sorted in directories are the key. Other components of the service-driven network rely on this basic foundation to provide a wealth of other functions. The planning and project activity to develop a directory framework that supports these business goals hinges on an effective directory strategy. A well-designed directory framework that is independent of product choices, however, enables savings on future implementation costs through reduced deployment time, and lowers total cost of ownership over the life of the application through more efficient administration.
Security services are the foundation for risk management in the enterprise network infrastructure.
These services include authentication, data encryption, digital signature, and access control. Given the advent of extranets, both authorization and intrusion detection services are becoming important parts of the enterprise security infrastructure at the edge of the network as well. Policy enforcement, monitoring, and response systems are essential features of the network security architecture. Your architecture must to be capable of scaling rapidly while adding new services and rebalancing existing services in a highly flexible manner. Data services, transactions, authentication, authorization, and other aspects of functionality are implemented in a way that allows easy deployment, scaling, and integration of new business applications.