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Identity management - Definition
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Identity Management (IdM) 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 application or system.

Solutions which fall under the category of Identity Management:

  • Provisioning/Deprovisioning of accounts
  • Workflow Automation
  • Identity Repository (directory services for administration of user account attributes)
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Policy based Access Control
  • Delegated Administration
  • Password Synchronization
  • Self-Service Password Reset
  • Enterprise/Legacy Single Sign On (SSO)
  • Web Single Sign On (SSO)
  • Reduced Sign On
  • Federation of user access rights on web applications across otherwise untrusted networks

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