Explore the concepts used across Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, Access Management, privileged access, authorization and identity security.
Definitions are organized to support search and navigation between related concepts.
A hybrid IAM architecture combines identity and access capabilities operated across different environments: SaaS, cloud, on-premises, sometimes several clouds, legacy systems and external identity services.
An IAM capability landscape, known in French practice as urbanisation IAM, organises identity and access capabilities coherently across the information system.
IAM delivery is the ability to turn an identity and access design into a service that is genuinely usable in production.
IAM knowledge transfer is the process by which a team becomes genuinely autonomous in operating, diagnosing and evolving an identity platform.
IAM mapping is the structured description of the identities, accounts, applications, entitlements, and flows that make up the existing identity landscape.
An IAM maturity assessment measures how well an organisation governs, operates, and derives value from identity and access management, beyond the tools it has installed.
An IAM migration moves identities, accounts, entitlements, policies, and integrations from an existing identity platform or model to another one.
An IAM operating model defines the responsibilities that make identity and access management work durably across an organisation.
IAM reversibility is an organisation's ability to change or replace part of its identity stack without losing control of its data, configurations, policies and operating processes.
An IAM roadmap is the sequenced trajectory that turns a target identity and access architecture into a realistic, prioritised programme of work.
An IAM target architecture is the coherent representation of the identity and access ecosystem an organisation intends to reach.
Identity as a Service, or IDaaS, is the delivery of identity and access capabilities as a cloud service operated by a provider.
Identity sovereignty is the degree of control an organisation retains over its identity data, how it is processed, which dependencies it relies on and whether it can change solution.
