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Identity management
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 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
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Categories: Software | Computer security | Identity Management systems
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