Identity management
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Identity Management (IdM) is an integrated system of business processes, policies and technologies that enable organizations to facilitate and control their users' access to critical online applications and resources — while protecting confidential personal and business information from unauthorized users. It represents a category of interrelated solutions that are employed to administer user authentication, access rights, access restrictions, account profiles, passwords, and other attributes supportive of users' roles/profiles on one or more applications or systems.
Solutions which fall under the category of Identity Management:
Management of Identities
- Provisioning/Deprovisioning of accounts
- Workflow automation
- Delegated administration
- Password Synchronization
- Self-Service Password Reset
- Policy based access control
- Enterprise/Legacy Single Sign On (SSO) and Single Signout
- Web Single Sign On (SSO)
- Reduced Sign On
- Identity Repository (directory services for administration of user account attributes)
- Meta-data Replication/Synchronization
- Directory Virtualization (virtual directory)
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Federation of user access rights on web applications across otherwise untrusted networks
- Directory enabled networking and 802.1X EAP
- [Project Liberty] - An industry consortium
- [Shibboleth] - Identity standards targeted towards educational environments.
See also
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Directory service
- metadirectory and virtual directory
- LDAP
- Digital identity
- Authentic source
External links
- [Defining Enterprise Identity Management]
- [Identity Management Terminology]
- [Identity Management Project Roadmap]
- [Stand & Deliver] (PDF)
- [Digital Identity Revolution]
- [Identity Management & Sarbanes-Oxley]
- [Provisioning & Password Reset ROI Analysis]
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