ITDT Services Solutions Architect, ITDT
GDPR Compliance and IAM Services in a
European Municipality
Panagiotis Kranidiotis

● The previous situation of Heraklion City
● The proposed solution
● Lessons learned
● Benefits for municipalities by using WSO2 Identity Server
● About IT Digital Transformation
Abstract

City of Heraklion Crete

● Administrative capital of the
island of Crete
● 4th largest city in Greece
104,730 citizens
● 3Μ tourists every year
● Awarded as one of 21 Word’s
Smart Communities in 2014
● Basement of University of
Crete
City of Heraklion Crete

● Web portal with more than 6000
users
● Case management system for 700
employees
● Email based on Postfix and Horde
● Mobile applications for citizens
● Epayment gateway
● Varius Wordpess sites
IT infrastructure

● Unique users profile
● GDPR compliance
● Unify the authentication process
● Provide new options of authentication
Identity Management Target

● University of Crete – Applications
Migration
● NTUA Institute of Communication
and Computer Systems – LDAP
● IT Digital Transformation Services –
Identity Management
The team

● Creation of a new LDAP infrastructure based on Open LDAP
● Users migration from portal’s database and other applications
● Creation of IdM infrastructure based on WSO2 Identity Server
● Use of national Identity Provider for advanced security services
● Migration of applications to SAML2 and Oauth2 Authentication
Proposed solution

● GDPR ready
● Centralized identity
● Various type of userstores
● Various options of inbound authentication types SAML2, OAUTH2 ,
JWT etc
● Self registration
● Fully open source
● Option of vendor support
Why WSO2 Identity Server?

● Single handling of users
● Self-care users portal. Access, rectify, consent revocation, data
portability
● Consent management
● Strong authentication
GDPR compliance achieved?

● Users migration from various userstore is a painfull procedure
● WSO2 is a great platform to create custom solutions keeping the core
solution stable
● React or other mainstream javascript could be a better option for UI
components
Lessons learned

● Add more municipality applications to Identity Management platform
● Deployment on other municipalities in Crete
● Exchange of users with municipalities, universities, prefecture
● Use of Identity management infrastructure to private companies.
Create loyalty schemes
● Eponymous Online intergration
Next steps

● Unique identity experience for public servants and citizens
● Single way of authentication. Reduced cost of development in new
applications
● Sharing identities with other private and public sector authorities and
the academia
● Easy GDPR compliance
● EIDAS ready. From 29th of Semtember 2018 compulsory for public
administrations
Benefits for municipalities

IT Digital Transformation Ltd is a company
based in Cyprus with customers at the
moment in Cyprus, Greece and the Balkans.
Company provides digital transformation
solutions based in WSO2 products, especially
in WSO2 Identity Management.
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