1. Employee Authentication Services (EAS)
A potential pan-government service
Chief Information Officer Group (CIOG) – DCSF

2. EAS – Scope and target benefits
A scalable, sustainable and secure solution for local government employees to access sensitive information in central government systems:
Ready to roll out from November 2008
Scalable and flexible to support multiple applications across government
Endorsed and security accredited as a core shared government asset
Set-up funded by DCSF and CLG
DCSF acting as “driving customer”
Target Benefits
Avoid the need for employees to use multiple authentication processes/tokens
Support greater collaboration/joint working for the benefit of citizens, children, learners
Provide cross government aligned processes and systems for secure sharing/ accessing of sensitive data
Improve efficiency through re-use within central and local government
Consistent with pan-government policies and architecture (PSIT, xGEA)

3. Project development since March 2007
Completed high level solution architecture
Design reviewed with CJIT, GG and ContactPoint and endorsed by Cross Gov CIO Council
Evaluation of assets against requirements
GG, CJIT, NHS and market sounding
Response to invitation to participate from GG and CJIT
Local Authorities positively engaged
11 early adopter LAs on working groups (Registration and operation)
Sub-group reports defining policy on key areas
Registration, Operational Impact, Trust and Sustainability
Full business case and evaluation of proposals completed end November
Government Gateway appointed to develop components of solution

4. CLG/DCSF CoI working group
EAS Governance
SRO
DWP (Kenny Robertson)
DCSF (Tim Wright)
CLG (Roy Marshall)
CIO/CTO Council (Kevin Murphy)
ContactPoint
Brent LA
Becta
Gov Connect
EDT
EAS Project Board
EAA Working Group
LAs: Salford Newham St Helens Herts Derbyshire Hants Leeds London Connects LeGSB
DWP Cabinet Office / eDT NHS Ministry of Justice / CJIT MoD CSIA / CESG Becta
CLG/DCSF CoI working group
Operational model & implementation guide
Policy on min registration procedures
Achieving shared trust
Sustainability and migration
Salford +6
LeGSB Hants Newham Brent
NHS; CSIA DCSF CESG Gov Connect
CLG DCSF EDT
DWP

5. How will the solution look?
Common Trust Framework (rules & standards) LA
Shared Identity Provider Service (IDP)
Authentication Broker
Quick and simple integration
DCSF Applications LA
DWP Applications LA LA
Own IDP Service
Other central govt
apps
NHS
Own IDP Service

6. Components of the solution
Registration Authority (LA or National Partner)
Central Hub
Service Provider
Service Provider
Shared Identity Provider
Administrator
Administrator
Registration
systems
Authentication Broker
Broker service
People and processes
Gateway service
Service
Account
Attributes
Identity
checking
Web
service
Issue
credentials
People and processes
Integration support for central government services
portal
Service Integration Support
Application integration service
Test environment provision
Store
Attributes
User
Authentication
People and processes
New Government Gateway capability
Existing Government Gateway platforms