REVIEW OF IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Identity and access management is rapidly becoming the top business issue as\norganizations look to increase security, reduce risk and decrease operational costs. In order to\nevaluate adequately the emerging maze of technologies brought forward by various\nvendors it is necessary to critically analyze many aspects of the identity related security\nterms and techniques. The emerging development of techniques assisting in the\nconsolidation of dispersed yet somewhat related Identity components across the\nenterprise-wide systems could very well reduce the cost of management, while increasing\nthe control over enforcement of governing Compliance and internal security policies. But\nas always there may be tradeoffs that could damage the organization if not planned\nproperly. The fascinating fact is that Identity Management is 80% politics and business and 20%\ntechnology. Identity Management is a set of processes and supporting infrastructure for the\ncreation, maintenance and use of digital identities (unique ids, attributes, credentials, entitlements.\nThis paper aims to discuss what Identity Management means in the context of Information\nTechnology and to provide an over view of the important components that makeup Identity\nManagement Systems.