Directory Services

DIRECTORY SERVICES: Directory products. Directory schema and access protocols. Providing applications and infrastructure with accurate identity and policy information; connecting to authoritative sources of identity information; synchronizing account and identity information across applications and directories; and scaling, federating, and virtualizing identity repositories. Relationship of directory services to authentication. Replication and distribution of directories for scale and performance. Administering and securing directories. Relationship of identity information stored in directories with information stored in other authoritative sources such as Human Resources systems.

• LDAP
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• Directory
• Virtual directory
• Meta-directory
• Directory proxy
• Active Directory

This topic relates to the Identity and Privacy coverage area - Identity Infrastructure Planning and building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, and supporting the digital identity lifecycle.

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