Identity management
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. 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
Access Control
- Policy based Access Control
- Enterprise/Legacy Single Sign On (SSO)
- Web Single Sign On (SSO)
- Reduced Sign On
Directory Services
- Identity Repository (directory services for administration of user account attributes)
- Meta-data Replication/Synchronization
Other categories
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Federation of user access rights on web applications across otherwise untrusted networks
See also
External links
Commercial/Freeware Authorization
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