What is Identity Management?

In this video, Identity Management expert and 12 time Microsoft MVP, David Lundell, explains what is Identity Management. #IdentityManagement #IdM #FIM #MIM Provisioning, deprovisioning, Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR), Snappy Slackers, Jiffy Turtle. MFA. Access Control, SSO.
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Transcript:
What is Identity Management? This is David Lundell for Identity Managed, and in the next few minutes I will answer this question.
Identity Management relieves IT drudgery, improves compliance and security and saves money.
Using the latest buzzwords it is classified as a robotic process automation or a workflow automation. It has several components for automating and securing the lifecycle of user accounts. Let’s follow one employee

As Jiffy Turtle joins Snappy Slackers, a styling clothing company, he needs credentials: a username and password (maybe several sets), and multi-factor credentials such as Soft Tokens on his smart phone. These credentials will allow him to access files, email, printers and the accounting system.

Identity Management also works towards Single Sign On, enabling users to log on once and access all of their resources. This improves security and productivity because users don’t need to write down their passwords, and they spend less time logging in and remembering forgotten passwords.

With Identity Management we enable users to handle a forgotten password themselves, with multi-factor authentication and/or Secret Questions

As Jiffy gets promoted to Accounting Manager he gets placed in a group called accounting Managers., which has permissions to certain folders and software. As Pennyworth shifts from accounting manager to marketing director she is removed from the same group. Controlling access based on your job or role from HR is called Role Based Access Control

Rich Guy, Jiffy’s manager gets promoted from Director of Accounting to CFO and as the data gets updated in HR it flows out to the MetaDirectory and then to the phone LDAP directory as well as to Office 365 and Active Directory.

When Jiffy Turtle leaves the organization his user accounts are terminated (disabled and then eventually deleted)

Identity Management is automating the
Provisioning an identity a username and password or other means of authentication
Deprovisioning an identity (invalidating your means of authentication)
Password Synchronization and Self-Service Password Reset
Single Sign On (SSO) – using the same means of authentication to access all or almost all of your resources
Provisioning of Certificates, Smart Cards, One time Password (OTP) devices and soft tokens
Group Management (helping you get authorized to access resources)
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Synchronization of Identity Data (name, job title, contact info) between databases, directories and applications

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