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Identity and Access Management (IAM): A Definitive Guide

With the rapid evolution of internet, cyber threats are also increasing exponentially.

To limit such cyber threats, organizations have to re-think about their security strategy.

Here comes Identity and Access Management (IAM) into action.

Let’s discuss about this in detail…

What is Identity and Access Management?

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a discipline of cyber-security that enables an organization to set up rights, access control, privileges, and manage identities etc.

IAM solutions are leveraged by employees (employee identity management) of an organization and customers (customer identity management) leveraging their products/services.

Some well-known Identity and access management vendors or product providers are Sailpoint, Okta, Cyberark, Forgerock, etc.

IAM systems enable IT managers to monitor & ensure their employees & users like who is authenticating and how they are accessing the applications.

Apart from implementing access control & management, IAM systems also support various authentication methods such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), two-factor authentication (2FA), single sign-on (SSO), smart log-in, password less authentication, etc.

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