Gartner defines access management (AM) as tools that include authentication and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities, and that establish, manage and enforce runtime access controls for modern standards-based and classic web applications and APIs. AM’s purpose is to enable SSO access for people (employees, consumers and other users) and machines to protected applications in a streamlined and consistent way that enhances the user experience. AM is also responsible for providing security controls to protect the user session in runtime, enforcing authentication and authorization using adaptive access. Lastly, AM can provide identity context for other cybersecurity tools and reliant applications to enable identity-first security.
Gartner defines identity governance and administration (IGA) as the solution to manage the identity life cycle and govern access across on-premises and cloud environments. To accomplish this, IGA tools aggregate and correlate disparate identity and access rights data, and provide full capability controls over accounts and associated access. IGA solutions also fulfill the purpose of unifying and correlating identity data for organizations with multiple person and machine identity authoritative sources. This is done to provide a single view of identity (system of record) for their dependent processes and systems
Gartner defines integration platform as a service (iPaaS) as a vendor-managed cloud service that enables end users to implement integrations between applications, services and data sources, both internal and external to their organization.
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The System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM), also known as Identity Federation provide a protocol, schema definition and extension model for provisioning and managing identity data in cloud/hybrid applications and services. The protocol supports create, read, update and delete (CRUD) operations of identity resources, such as users, groups and custom resource extensions. SCIM reduces the costs of building connectors and synchronizes and consolidates identity data. SCIM uses a standardized protocol based on RESTful APIs and JSON, enabling easy integration with modern web services. It supports full CRUD operations for managing users and groups, and automates the entire user lifecycle from provisioning to deprovisioning across connected systems. SCIM is widely used by IT administrators, identity managers, and SaaS developers to automate user provisioning and manage identity lifecycles securely across systems. It’s especially valuable in industries like finance, healthcare, education, technology, and government, where secure and compliant identity management is critical.
Gartner defines user authentication as the journey-time process that provides credence in a claim to an identity established for a person for access to digital assets. User authentication is delivered by some combination of (a) an authenticator, (b) signals evaluation and (c) an authentication decision point, which may be from different vendors. User authentication is used to provide credence in an identity claim for a person already known to an organization. The credence must be sufficient to bring account takeover (ATO) risks within the organization’s risk tolerance. User authentication is foundational to and protects the value of other functions with an organization’s identity fabric, namely: runtime authorization, especially segregation of duties (SOD); audit (individual accountability); and identity analytics.