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Randolph University Getting the Just the Right Amount of Outside Help
University course registrations, grades, departmental budgets, and other sensitive information were to be stored on PC-based servers and accessed via the Internet. A central concern was security: the mainframe systems had a well-developed and thoroughly tested user-authentication process, but nothing similar existed in the web-applications area. The university did not need outside programming help. It operates its own software-development department, which is closely affiliated with its academic computer science program and staffed largely by students and recent graduates. While these programmers are enthusiastic and knowledgeable, they often lack real-world experience and familiarity with large, complex database systems. Randolph University hired Chalem Systems Group to design a user-authentication architecture that would serve the security needs of their new family of web-based applications. After extensive information gathering and consultation, CSG designed a database structure and a communications protocol that would allow multiple applications running on multiple web servers to share the resources of a single, centralized "authentication server." Using the specifications that CSG provided, the university's software development department was able to implement the security system and to adapt it to their growing and diverse needs. |
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university was in the process of moving many of
its software systems from a mainframe computer to a web-based system. There were enough programmers
to ensure this transition; what they needed from CSG was the systems architecture to
get it all started and running smoothly.