Trusted Identity Broker (TIB)
Covisint Trusted Identity Broker is one component in Covisint's complete Identity Management as a Service product suite. The Trusted Identity Broker is a solution for managing the federation of user identities across security domains. Covisint's Trusted Identity Broker allows a user to login locally at their employer's domain, federate their identity to Covisint's central hub, and select from a variety of external services that are all accessible without requiring a secondary login.Covisint manages the network connections and the certificate status (to ensure secure, reliable transactions between connected partners), and performs federation protocol translation, user attribute mapping, user ID mapping, and keeps a log of all traffic flow.
The Trusted Identity Broker Covisint is a complete federation solution that overcomes the technical and non-technical implementation barriers and allows companies to begin realizing the benefits of federation in a few short weeks.
As depicted in the figure below, the Covisint Trusted Identity Broker utilizes a hub architecture, which dramatically reduces the complexity in situations where organizations are connecting to multiple end points, particularly in a community where the participants are all federating to each other.
