Identity management

Identity Management (IM) is an integrated system of business processes, policies and technologies that enable organizations to facilitate and control their users access to critical online applications and resources — while protecting confidential personal and business information from unauthorized users. It represents a category of interrelated solutions that are employed to administer 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_signon (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

Standards Initiatives

[http://www.projectliberty.org/ Project Liberty] - An industry consortium

[http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ Shibboleth] - Identity standards targeted towards educational environments

=See also=

Single sign-on

Directory service

Metadirectory and virtual directory

LDAP

Digital identity

Authentic source

=External links=

==White papers / discussion papers==

*[http://idsynch.com/docs/identity-management-defined.html Defining Enterprise Identity Management] *[http://idsynch.com/docs/identity-management-terminology.html Identity Management Terminology] *[http://idsynch.com/docs/identity-management-project-roadmap.html Identity Management Project Roadmap]

[http://www.xuis.com/documents/passstation/StandDeliver.pdf Stand & Deliver]

==Identity Management Consulting Resources==

*[http://accessidentity.com Todd Rossin Identity Management Consultant]

==Commercial/Freeware Authorization==

*[http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/radius.html Gnu Free Authorization] *[http://www.aradial.com Aradial Authorization] *[http://www.criticalpath.net/en/22/identitymanagement/ Critical Path™ - Identity Management Solutions] *[http://www.geneous-software.co.uk Geneous Software] *[http://www.xuis.com/products/aims/ XuiS Software - AIMS]