Access Control and Identity Management

Access Control and Security –

Identity management (IdM), also referred to as identity and access management (IAM or IdAM), is a framework of rules and tools used to guarantee that only the right users—those who are a part of the network surrounding or residing inside an enterprise—have access to the resources needed to use technology. IdM systems fall under the broad categories of data management and IT security. Systems for managing access to hardware and applications are also included in the identification, authentication, and control of users who will be using IT resources.

IdM addresses the need to meet increasingly strict compliance requirements while ensuring adequate access to resources in increasingly varied technological contexts.

In the context of identity access management, the phrases “identification management” (IdM) and “identity and access management” are interchangeable.

Who Uses IdM?

Individuals, computer-related gear, and software applications are only a few examples of the entities that are managed by identity-management systems, products, applications, and platforms. IdM addresses topics such as how people acquire identities, the roles and occasionally permissions that identities grant, identity protection, and the technology that support identity protection (e.g., network protocols, digital certificates, passwords, etc.).

Identity management in the context of developing online systems might comprise the following five fundamental tasks:

– The user access (log-on) function: For instance, a smart card and its associated data are used by a customer to log in to a service or services (a traditional view); – The pure identity function: Creation, management, and deletion of identities without respect to access or entitlements;

– The service function: A system that provides users and their devices with personalized, role-based, online, on-demand, multimedia (content), presence-based services.

– Identity Federation: A method of authenticating a person without their password via federated identity.

– Audit function: Keep an eye out for glitches, problems, and suspicious behavior.

Organization Implications

Every organization often has a position or division in charge of maintaining the digital identity schema for its employees and its own objects, which are identified by object identities or object IDs (OID).

Identity Governance and Administration is a term used occasionally to refer to the organizational rules, processes, and procedures relating to the supervision of identity management (IGA). To help automate and simplify such organizational-level identity management responsibilities, commercial software technologies are available. The extent to which these tools are used successfully and appropriately is governed by larger governance, risk management, and compliance frameworks.

Identity management development closely mirrors advancements in Internet technology. In the early 1990s, when static web pages and static portals were the norm, businesses looked at how to give educational web content like employee “white pages.” To handle self-service and help-desk updates more effectively over time when the information changed (due to staff attrition, provisioning, and de-provisioning), the capability evolved into what is now known as identity management.

• Password manager
• Single sign-on (SSO)
• Web single sign-on (Web SSO)
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Attribute based access control (ABAC)

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