What is IDM?
Identity Management: Defined
Identity Management (IDM) are the processes and technologies used to managed digital identities and control access to resources within an organization. In short, IDM ensures that the right individuals have access to the right resources at the right times for the right reasons. While all organizations have implemented Identity Management processes, many organizations employ Identity Management software to streamline those processes to increase accuracy and efficiency.
IDM has always been a key component of the broader Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategic initiative, but around 2014, Identity Management was combined with Identity Governance to create the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) space. Most Identity Management software vendors have followed the analysts and either tightly integrate their Identity Governance and Identity Management software solutions or they have been merged together entirely.
Identity Management Key Capabilities:
- User Provisioning: by far the most important and difficult portion of Identity Management, user provisioning involves creating, updating and removing user accounts in various IT systems within an organization. This ensures new employees are onboarded into key systems, updated as they’re relationship with the organization changes over time, and is promptly removed upon exiting the organization.
- Authorization: while provisioning handles all attributes of the user, the most important for security and compliance are the authorizations, which determine what systems and data a user can access and what actions they can perform in those systems or on the data in question. Proliferation of authorization rights are a common attack vector for security breaches within an organization.
- Password Management: this functionality is commonly shared with Web Access Management systems, password management refers to a user’s ability to manage their own password, including things such as password self-service, password changes, password resets, and password synchronization.
- Policy Enforcement: policies can be directly embedded into the processes defined in Identity Management systems to ensure they are consistently applied, such as naming standards, attribute synchronization, password policies, and many more.
- Auditing and Reporting: all actions taken by the system must be auditable for security and compliance reporting purposes. Other trend reporting can also be helpful to allow IAM Analysts the ability to identify trends and implement improvements to organizational policies.
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