Provisioning and Identity Management

• IDENTITY MANAGEMENT (IdM): Market coverage of how vendors, standards groups, and society are transforming the way enterprises use identity information. Analysis of technology and market trends for identity management suite vendors, established independent vendors, and start-ups as they respond to changing industry requirements. The role of relationships in management of identity. Business models for third-party provision of identity information to relying parties. Protocols for collection and exchange of identity information.
• USER MANAGEMENT AND PROVISIONING: Life-cycle management of accounts and digital identities; delegated and self-service identity administration; workflow; and provisioning of accounts, access rights, and resources. Exchange of identity and attribute information between federation partners. Protocols and applications which support management of user information and provisioning of identity and entitlement information to applications which need to authenticate and authorize users.

• User provisioning
• User administration
• Delegated administration
• Password self service
• Password synchronization
• Workflow
• Identity management
• Identity management suite
• Identity as a service
• Digital identity
• Service Provisioning Markup Language
• SPML
• Relationships

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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