Utilisation

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Utilisation

The market service eIAM controls access to web applications, native mobile apps and web services of the Federal Administration and protects them against unauthorised access.


eIAM federates the electronic identities of different internal and external identity providers into federated identities for the target applications and enforces the required authentication strength. eIAM enables single sign-on (SSO) across multiple applications.

Optionally, eIAM can provide the connected applications with statements on the authorisations of the users. The so-called access management (authorisation system) corresponds to eIAM Service 7.

eIAM Landing Page

Reference page for integrated applications
This page serves as a landing page for references from the operations manuals of integrated applications. Here you will find all relevant information to ensure the smoothest possible collaboration between the operations/project organization of your business application and eIAM.

Important Notice on Release Planning

Please pay particular attention to the section eIAM-Releaseplan, which transparently indicates when, on which stage, activities with potential impact on your application are carried out.

  • Do not schedule critical work around the release dates on REF and ABN if your application is strictly dependent on eIAM.
  • The REF and ABN stages are not subject to any SLA. Service release installations may cause interruptions and can impact integrated business applications.
  • Plan your regression tests early within these time windows to ensure that any necessary bugfix releases can be delivered in a timely manner.

eIAM infrastructure and use

The eIAM service is a VK3 standard service of the Federal Administration, or the FCh DTI with the service provider FOITT.