Document Revision 0020
Published: February 9, 2006

ISIS4 Overview

Welcome to the ISIS4 Developer’s Guide. This guide is intended for developers looking to use ISIS as the authentication mechanism for their application.

Integrated Security Information Services (ISIS) is UCLA’s common web authentication service. ISIS provides the following key functions:

• Provide user authentication via BOL ID/Password , QDB ID/Password , UID/PIN, and AIS’s mainframe OASIS ID/Password via a secure common login server.
• Provide self-service user password change and reset .
• Enable single sign-on among campus web applications.
• Provide basic user identity, demographic, and role membership look-up information via the Attribute Service.

ISIS4 is built on a robust and highly scalable system architecture designed to enhance system security and to improve support for web single sign-on. Enabling your application to use ISIS for user authentication is straightforward. If your application meets the system requirements, using ISIS is a simple matter of redirecting the user to the ISIS Login Server (ILS) for user authentication, and upon successful authentication, querying the ISIS Web Service (IWS) to confirm the authentication and to retrieve user profile and session information…

Download the complete ISIS 4 Developer’s Guide in Adobe Acrobat Format (.pdf)