Enterprise Identity Management

03 Jul 2012

Identity management is mainstream now. Sometimes I have a feeling that everybody in "the industry" understands identity management quite well. But that's obviously not entirely the case. When I discuss identity management with other people they somehow do not realize that it is not a single technology. They do not realize the complex labyrinth of technologies that forms the "identity management" buzzword. E.g. people frequently try to apply access management to a task that it just cannot solve. People think that provisioning will give them SSO. And so on. There are obviously some misunderstandings ...

Instead of answering the same questions and explaining the same concepts again and again I have compiled a text that explains it all. All the basic concepts of enterprise identity management. The text is in midPoint wiki: Enterprise Identity Management