{"id":651,"date":"2015-11-23T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=651"},"modified":"2018-07-20T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:41:30","slug":"the-definitive-identity-management-glossary-over-60-terms-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/the-definitive-identity-management-glossary-over-60-terms-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"The Definitive Identity Management Glossary: Over 60 Terms Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cloudglossary\"<\/a>Here\u2019s something you\u2019ve probably heard before: the firewall-defined boundary that used to confine an organization\u2019s IT assets and users is falling apart amidst an explosion in mobility, data, and cloud applications\u2014identity has emerged as the new perimeter for enterprise information security.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Identity Management is one of the hottest, most important areas in information security today, and it\u2019s also one of the fastest going business segments in IT.<\/p>\n

But as technology improves, the volume of terminology around it increases\u2014there’s a seemingly endless torrent of new terminology surrounding Identity Management, and the acronyms just keep piling up\u2014IAM, IDM, PIM, PAM, SIEM, RBAC, SSO,\u2014the list goes on and on. Worst of all, if can be difficult to find an explanation that doesn\u2019t reference another half dozen ciphered terms.<\/p>\n

Here at Solutions Review, we do our best to provide IT professionals with the top Identity Management\u00a0news<\/a>, best practices<\/a>, and buyer\u2019s guides<\/a>, and in keeping with that mission, we now bring you a quick and easy way to decipher the growing collection of Identity Management \u00a0terminology:\u00a0The Solutions Review Identity Management Glossary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From access to termination, Solutions Review\u2019s A to Z Identity Management Glossary\u00a0has definitions for over 50 of the most popular Identity Management terms and acronyms.<\/p>\n

Defined terms include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Access Management<\/p>\n

Affiliation<\/p>\n

Attribute<\/p>\n

Audit<\/p>\n

Authentication<\/p>\n

Authorization<\/p>\n

Authorization Audit<\/p>\n

Authorizer<\/p>\n

Central Authentication Service (CAS)<\/p>\n

Chief Information Officer (CIO)<\/p>\n

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)<\/p>\n

Compliance<\/p>\n

Credential<\/p>\n

Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)<\/p>\n

Data<\/p>\n

Digital Identity<\/p>\n

De-provisioning<\/p>\n

Event<\/p>\n

Federated Identity<\/p>\n

Federated Identity Management<\/p>\n

FIDO Alliance<\/p><\/div>\n

Group<\/p>\n

Identification<\/p>\n

Identity Access Governance<\/p>\n

Identity and Access Management (IAM)<\/p>\n

Identity Attribute<\/p>\n

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)<\/p>\n

Identity Management (IdM)<\/p>\n

Identity Management as a Service (IDaaS)<\/a><\/p>\n

Level of Assurance (LoA)<\/p>\n

Log Files<\/p>\n

Logging<\/p>\n

Management Chain<\/p>\n

Multifactor Authentication<\/p>\n

NetID<\/p>\n

OAuth<\/p>\n

Offboarding<\/p>\n

OpenID<\/p>\n

Onboarding<\/p>\n

One Time Password (OTP)<\/p>\n

Password<\/p>\n

Password Reset<\/p><\/div>\n

Privilege<\/p>\n

Privilege Account Managment (PAM)<\/a><\/p>\n

Privileged Identity Management (PIM)<\/a><\/p>\n

Privilege Management<\/p>\n

Privileged User<\/p>\n

Provisioning<\/p>\n

Requester<\/p>\n

Role<\/p>\n

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)<\/p>\n

System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM)<\/p>\n

Security Administrator<\/p>\n

Security Entitlement Audit<\/p>\n

Self-Service Password Reset<\/p>\n

Session<\/p>\n

Single-Factor Authentication<\/p>\n

Single Sign-On (SSO)<\/p>\n

Support Analyst<\/p>\n

System of Record (SoR)<\/p>\n

Termination<\/p>\n

User<\/p>\n

User Provisioning<\/p>\n

Vetting<\/p><\/div>

<\/div>\n

Check out the Solutions Review Identity Management Glossary here<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Solutions Review\u2019s 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\u00a0contact us.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Interested in learning more about identity management? Check out these additional resources:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>\"SR_Identity_and_Access_Management_Buyers_Guide_Cover_350\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2015 Identity and Access Management Solutions Buyer’s Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Priviledged<\/a><\/p>\n

Three Important Reasons for Privileged Access Management (And One Surprising Benefit)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Gartner-Cool-Vendors\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Gartner Defines the Power of Consumer Identity and Access Management<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Forrester<\/a><\/p>\n

Forrester: Benchmark your Employee Password Policies and Practices<\/a><\/p>\n

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