Identity governance
Access Certification
Access Certification is the formal process of asking designated reviewers to confirm whether access remains legitimate.
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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Access Request Management
Access Request Management is the controlled process through which users request new, changed, or exceptional access.
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Access Review
An Access Review is a review activity used to evaluate whether existing access is still appropriate for a user, account, role, or entitlement.
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Anonymous Customer
An Anonymous Customer is a customer known only through limited interaction signals and not yet tied to a declared identity.
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Application Criticality Ranking
Application Criticality Ranking is the prioritization of applications according to their security or business importance for onboarding.
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Application Documentation Gap
An Application Documentation Gap is the lack of usable information about profiles, rights, owners, and incompatibilities needed for proper onboarding.
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Application Inventory for Migration
Application Inventory for Migration is the structured catalog of applications used to prepare onboarding and IAM transition work.
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Application Role Documentation
Application Role Documentation is the structured documentation of application profiles, rights, owners, and incompatibilities needed for onboarding.
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Application-Centric SoD Only
Application-Centric SoD Only is the mistake of limiting segregation-of-duties control to single applications and ignoring cross-application conflicts.
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Attribute Dictionary
An Attribute Dictionary is the controlled definition set of attributes used by an authorization or identity model.
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Authoritative Source
An Authoritative Source is a system designated as the trusted origin for a given identity data domain.
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Big-Bang Onboarding Assumption
A Big-Bang Onboarding Assumption is the belief that all applications should be integrated into the target IAM model in one large transformation wave.
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Business Access
Business Access is access linked to a person's operational activity, function, or team responsibility.
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Business Role
A Business Role is a role representing a team activity, business function, or organizational responsibility.
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Centralized Customer Identity Model
A Centralized Customer Identity Model is a CIAM model in which customer identity data is organized around a single core identity instead of scattered across disconnected systems.
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Consent Reinforcement
Consent Reinforcement is the strengthening of customer control and governance around how identity and personal data are used.
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Critical Application Deferral
Critical Application Deferral is the postponement of onboarding for high-impact applications even though they should be prioritized.
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Cross-Channel Personalization
Cross-Channel Personalization is the use of a shared customer identity and profile to personalize experiences consistently across multiple channels.
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Customer Profile Unification
Customer Profile Unification is the process of merging fragmented customer records into one coherent identity-centered profile.
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Customer Profiling
Customer Profiling is the enrichment of customer identity with behavioral, preference, and contextual information to better understand and serve the customer.
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Data Quality Analysis
Data Quality Analysis is the examination of identity and access data to detect inconsistency, incompleteness, duplication, or governance defects.
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Delegated Administration
Delegated Administration is the controlled distribution of IAM management responsibilities to local or business actors.
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Delegated Approval
Delegated Approval is an approval decision performed by an authorized delegate rather than by the original designated approver.
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Delegation
Delegation is the controlled transfer of a governance or approval responsibility from one actor to another.