Interview with Nina Reignier Tayar (Director of Numrique Universit Grenoble Alpes): The IAM serves to urbanize our information system

The editorial staff of Le Monde Informatique will meet you on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. A date to mark in your diary since it marks the start of the IT tour 2021 and the broadcast of a first broadcast of the LMI tour de France devoted to the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region. For this stage, in partnership with Adira, Clusir Rhône Alpes and Club 27001, several feedbacks and technological zooms are planned, as well as a zoom on a local start-up with high potential and a major interview with a CIO who counts in the region. Note that this program also benefits from the support of AFCDP, Cesin and Clusif.

Regarding the major editorial interview, it is Thomas Chejfec, Haulotte’s CIO who will answer the editorial staff’s questions and will outline the main issues oriented towards digital transformation and low code at the service of the group’s users. Among the feedback, you will find that of Renaud Causier, CIO of Oogarden specializing in the online sale of products for exterior design (100 M € turnover) with a development project of the group’s network infrastructure based on MPLS links to SD-WAN. Cyrille Elsen, CIO of the innovative start-up Serenecity will also perform in a sequence in partnership with MyFrenchStart-up, a demonstration of the visualization of cyberthreats and the automation of blocking rules.

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Nina Reignier Tayar, Digital Director of the University of Grenoble Alpes in duplex visio on the next web TV IT Tour 2021 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes du Monde Informatique. (credit: LMI)

Director of digital at the University of Grenoble Alpes (58,000 students) – and also a member of the board of directors of the CSIES (IT services committee for higher education and research) -, Nina Reignier Tayar is notably responsible for a Multi-establishment identity and access management repository. In terms of equipment, the UGA has 6,000 workstations, manages 200 applications and 100,000 IT accounts. “We have observed a multiplication of access accounts, a global complexity and a security issue to know who accesses the IS, for what reasons and at what period”, explains Nina Reignier Tayar.

To meet these different objectives and the need for uniqueness of accounts, the University set out on an IAM solution based on internal, open source development to have “an efficient solution, control and update”, specifies Nina Reignier Tayar. The multi-site and authorization management capacities of this tool, called Biper (interuniversity database of people and their role), allows people to be enrolled immediately. “We have cabled our entire IS with around fifty data sources to supply Biper with automated and manual flows allowing named and identified correspondents to make manual entries for temporary access”. More than an IS access repository, Biper is also used to facilitate the urbanization of IS linked to major changes in applications. “We realized that we can use our IAM as a data hub to urbanize our information system,” confirms Nina Reignier Tayar.