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Provisioning (Prov)

Metadata Updated: April 21, 2022

User provisioning is the process of associating a digital identity with one or more resource access accounts, which may serve as records for user data and permissions. This may include the creation, modification, deletion, suspension, or restoration of such accounts and also synchronizing user data. Managing user accounts locally creates redundancy in collecting and managing user information. This may lead to inaccuracies and inconsistencies with user data that is stored in authoritative sources, and this may also create security vulnerabilities by maintaining accounts for terminated users. By leveraging Provisioning, VA applications are able to centrally manage user information, attributes, roles, and accounts using data from authoritative identity sources. Once a manually intensive and disjointed process, VAs Provisioning (Prov) service leverages automated and centralized workflows to enhance security and bolster efficiency. As a result, application administrators, who previously had to manually manage user administration, now have services available to automate the process. Provisioning assigns the Security Identifier (SecID) as a unique user identifier for integrated applications to use for user authorization and audit. SecID is a unique ID assigned to a user when they are added to the Provisioning system via an on-boarding event. SecID, once assigned, remains the same even if the user status with VA changes over time (i.e., a Veteran becomes a contractor and then later becomes an employee). SecID is the identifier used to correlate Provisioning records to MVIs integration control number (ICN), which is the unique person identifier. Provisioning automates the on-boarding and off-boarding flows. Applications leveraging Provisioning gain an added benefit of automated account removal (deprovisioning) during off-boarding. The following table lists the detailed functions offered by the Provisioning service. Additionally, the Provisioning service includes a Role Engineering and Compliance Tool (RECT) that can help applications: Conduct Role Analysis: Provides the ability to analyze current roles and permissions to rapidly build and deploy an enterprise role model Certify User Roles: Provides the ability to have access privileges reviewed and managed by designated reviewers

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Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2022

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Harvested from VA JSON

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2022
Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2018-02-23
Data Last Modified 2022-03-22
Rights Protected by Privacy Act and/or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Public Access Level non-public
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Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Title VA JSON
Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/bdus-iu2h
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Program Code 029:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 9ad816254d96ccaa766e209df0ce376318c15d6b
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