IAM delivery and operations
IAM Acceptance Testing
IAM acceptance testing verifies that identity and access processes behave as expected for real business situations before go-live.
Identity and Access Management glossary
Explore the concepts used across Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, Access Management, privileged access, authorization and identity security.
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IAM Capacity
IAM capacity is the load an identity architecture can absorb: identities, accounts, events, authentications, decisions and scheduled processing.
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IAM Coexistence
IAM coexistence is a situation where several identity systems perform all or part of the same functions at the same time.
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IAM Decommissioning
IAM decommissioning is the controlled retirement of an identity platform or component once the usage it supported has genuinely moved elsewhere.
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IAM Hypercare
IAM hypercare is the period of heightened monitoring and support that follows a significant go-live, before operations return to their normal level.
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IAM Maintainability
IAM maintainability is the ability to fix, upgrade and evolve an identity platform without disproportionate risk or cost.
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IAM Monitoring
IAM monitoring is the continuous checking of predefined indicators to detect when an identity service stops producing the expected outcome.
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IAM Observability
IAM observability is the ability to understand the real state of an identity platform from the signals it emits, including for problems nobody anticipated.
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IAM Obsolescence
IAM obsolescence is the point at which an identity component still runs but becomes progressively hard to maintain, secure or evolve.
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IAM Operability
IAM operability is the ability to run an identity platform properly day after day: understand it, watch it, diagnose incidents and bring it back to a correct state.
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IAM Operations
IAM operations, often called the IAM run, is the day-to-day activity that keeps an identity and access platform delivering its service.
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IAM Performance
IAM performance measures how long an identity service takes to produce the expected outcome, indicator by indicator.
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IAM Resilience
IAM resilience is the ability of an identity platform to keep delivering an acceptable service despite a failure, an unavailable dependency or a degraded mode.
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IAM Rollback
An IAM rollback is a back-out plan that restores an acceptable service state when an identity change produces unexpected effects.
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IAM Technical Debt
IAM technical debt is the accumulation of technical compromises in an identity platform that raise the cost or risk of future changes.
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IAM Test Strategy
An IAM test strategy defines which levels of testing are applied to an identity platform, when, and by whom, beyond final acceptance.
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Operational Maintenance
Operational maintenance, known in French practice as maintien en condition opérationnelle (MCO), keeps an IAM system able to deliver the expected service.
MCO - IAM delivery and operations
Security Posture Maintenance
Security posture maintenance, known in French practice as maintien en condition de sécurité (MCS), keeps an IAM platform secure as versions, threats, and exposures evolve.
MCS