OCEAN's Identity Provider
- Nina Kovač
Ocean’s Identity Provider (IdP) is a background service responsible for user role management across Ocean’s product range. With a single user’s credential login to Ocean’s IdP users can gain access to wide range of Ocean’s applications depending on the user role.
About OCEAN’s Identity Provider
Ocean’s Identity Provider is a secure authentication service designed to manage user identities across various applications and services. It enables seamless, centralized user login experiences while ensuring robust security through modern protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAML.
Check out different authentication types and example on User Login via OCEAN's Identity Provider
By integrating with Ocean’s IdP, organizations can streamline access management, simplify user authentication, and enhance security through single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). Configuration options can be found on Configuration options for your OCEAN's IdP.
This documentation provides a guide to integrate and utilize Ocean’s IDP for secure and efficient identity management.
Role Management and Access Control
Ocean’s IdP is responsible for role management and controlling user access to all Ocean’s products. Once user is authenticated, Ocean’s IdP is controlling what data they can access and what actions they can perform. Managing permissions across different roles and groups while ensuring data security.
One user can have multiple roles in Ocean, for example one can be operator that accesses Ocean’s Operator portal and at the same time can be driver user and accesses his driver application to charge his vehicle.
Glossary
Identity management provider → is a service that stores and and verifies user identity
Federation - outsourcing the user authentication step to a trusted identity provider (e.g., Sign in with Google).
Authentication - process of verifying who a user is.
Authorization - process of verifying what user have access to.
FAQs
Is Ocean’s IdP responsible for user management?
Yes, Ocean’s IdP manages complete user lifecycle - creating users, modifying users and deactivating users.
Is Ocean’s IdP takes care of privacy and compliance?
Yes, it offers robust data protection and transparent user consent mechanisms.
Can Ocean’s IdP be used on multiple applications and with large number of users?
Yes, as the number of users and applications grows, identity management systems scale. Scalability of applications or users is taken care of.
How can Ocean’s IdP prevent frauds?
Ocean’s IdP verifies the identities of users during registration and authentication processes.