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User-Managed Access. User-Managed Access (UMA) is an OAuth -based access management protocol standard for party-to-party authorization. [1] Version 1.0 of the standard was approved by the Kantara Initiative on March 23, 2015. [2]
The Kantara User-Managed Access (UMA) specification—a set of standardized extensions to OAuth 2.0 aimed at asynchronous user permissioning and delegated authorization—has stabilized at V2.0 [7] [8] with the early adopter implementers now standardizing profiles and extensions. A Business and Legal framework is being developed to complement ...
Identity management (ID management) – or identity and access management (IAM) – is the organizational and technical processes for first registering and authorizing access rights in the configuration phase, and then in the operation phase for identifying, authenticating and controlling individuals or groups of people to have access to applications, systems or networks based on previously ...
Unified access management. Unified access management (UAM) refers to an identity management solution that is used by enterprises to manage digital identities and provide secure access to users across multiple devices and applications, both cloud and on-premise. Unified access management solutions provide a single platform from which IT can ...
Privileged access management. Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a type of identity management and branch of cybersecurity that focuses on the control, monitoring, and protection of privileged accounts within an organization. Accounts with privileged status grant users enhanced permissions, making them prime targets for attackers due to ...
Role-based access control is a policy-neutral access control mechanism defined around roles and privileges. The components of RBAC such as role-permissions, user-role and role-role relationships make it simple to perform user assignments. A study by NIST has demonstrated that RBAC addresses many needs of commercial and government organizations. [4]
Customer (or consumer) identity and access management (CIAM) is a subset of the larger concept of identity access management (IAM) that focuses on managing and controlling external parties' access to a business' applications, web portals and digital services. [1][2] The biggest difference between typical IAM and CIAM is that CIAM gives its ...
Federated identity is related to single sign-on (SSO), in which a user's single authentication ticket, or token, is trusted across multiple IT systems or even organizations. [2][3] SSO is a subset of federated identity management, as it relates only to authentication and is understood on the level of technical interoperability, and it would not ...