The Definitive Identity Management Glossary: Over 60 Terms Defined
Here’s something you’ve probably heard before: the firewall-defined boundary that used to confine an organization’s IT assets and users is falling apart amidst an explosion in mobility, data, and cloud applications—identity has emerged as the new perimeter for enterprise information security.
Indeed, Identity Management is one of the hottest, most important areas in information security today, and it’s also one of the fastest going business segments in IT.
But as technology improves, the volume of terminology around it increases—there’s a seemingly endless torrent of new terminology surrounding Identity Management, and the acronyms just keep piling up—IAM, IDM, PIM, PAM, SIEM, RBAC, SSO,—the list goes on and on. Worst of all, if can be difficult to find an explanation that doesn’t reference another half dozen ciphered terms.
Here at Solutions Review, we do our best to provide IT professionals with the top Identity Management news, best practices, and buyer’s guides, and in keeping with that mission, we now bring you a quick and easy way to decipher the growing collection of Identity Management terminology: The Solutions Review Identity Management Glossary.
From access to termination, Solutions Review’s A to Z Identity Management Glossary has definitions for over 50 of the most popular Identity Management terms and acronyms.
Defined terms include:
Access Management
Affiliation
Attribute
Audit
Authentication
Authorization
Authorization Audit
Authorizer
Central Authentication Service (CAS)
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Compliance
Credential
Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)
Data
Digital Identity
De-provisioning
Event
Federated Identity
Federated Identity Management
FIDO Alliance
Group
Identification
Identity Access Governance
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Identity Attribute
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
Identity Management (IdM)
Identity Management as a Service (IDaaS)
Level of Assurance (LoA)
Log Files
Logging
Management Chain
Multifactor Authentication
NetID
OAuth
Offboarding
OpenID
Onboarding
One Time Password (OTP)
Password
Password Reset
Privilege
Privilege Account Managment (PAM)
Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Privilege Management
Privileged User
Provisioning
Requester
Role
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM)
Security Administrator
Security Entitlement Audit
Self-Service Password Reset
Session
Single-Factor Authentication
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Support Analyst
System of Record (SoR)
Termination
User
User Provisioning
Vetting
Check out the Solutions Review Identity Management Glossary here.
Solutions Review’s Identity Management Glossary is a living document and will be updated with new terms and updated definitions periodically. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us.
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