IDM Solutions

Solutions which fall under the category of Identity Management:

• Management of Identities
  
  Provisioning/De-provisioning of accounts
  Workflow automation
  Delegated administration
  Password synchronization
  Self Service Password Reset
  


• Access Control
  
  Policy based access control
  Enterprise/Legacy Single Sign On (SSO) and Single Signout
  Web Single Sign On (SeoS)
  Reduced Sign On



• Directory Services
  
  Identity Repository (directory services for administration of user account attributes)
  Metadata Replication/Synchronization
  Directory Virtualization (virtual directory)
  e-business scale directory systems
  Next generation systems - CADS and CADS SDP



• Other categories
  
  Role-based access control (RBAC)
  Federation of user access rights on web applications across otherwise untrusted networks
  Directory enabled networking and 802.1X EAP



• Standards Initiatives
  
  SAML - An industry consortium
  Project Liberty - An industry consortium
  Shibboleth - Identity standards targeted towards educational environments.