The eTrust SiteMinder 100 Million User Project
During the past several years, over 70 eTrust SiteMinder customers spanning the financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, government and healthcare industries have steadily grown
their deployments to user communities exceeding one million identities. Of this “multi-million” user base,
74% provide their respective customers, suppliers and employees “single sign-on” access to information
and resources directly from their company’s website.
eTrust SiteMinder provides these constituents with secure and trusted access to the payment of bills, management of loans, execution of investment transactions, filing of claims, submission of service requests, and even the booking of vacations. For eTrust SiteMinder customers planning to ramp their user deployments into the multi-million user
range, the 100 Million User Project was developed to test and document eTrust SiteMinder scalability and
performance in a large-scale e-business environment, and to provide architecture design, deployment and
best practices considerations.
As more web applications are deployed and more business is conducted by more people online,
companies need a security solution that is efficient, available, reliable and scalable. eTrust SiteMinder
meets all these criteria and is customer proven in over 870 sites around the globe.
Performance
eTrust SiteMinder achieves high levels of performance by optimizing the speed of its policy server. With
quick start-up and fast runtime performance, the policy servers provide efficient security services
capable of supporting millions of users and thousands of protected resources.
Availability and Reliability
eTrust SiteMinder reliably and effectively ensures that the entire environment being secured remains available
and accessible to the right users. Administrators can set up load balancing and failover so that if one
eTrust SiteMinder component is unavailable, the next one will be used without interruption to the user.
Administrators may also choose to cluster policy servers, setting up dynamic load balancing within the
cluster and automatic failover among clusters to meet the increasing high performance, high availability
requirements of a growing enterprise.
Scalability
eTrust SiteMinder can work effectively and efficiently with multi-millions of users with information stored on
a broad array of user stores. By centralizing user access management, security administrators can
manage all security requirements for all categories of users throughout the enterprise, from a single location.
