Identity and Access Management

The proliferation of cloud-based technologies, mobile devices, social networks, Big Data, enterprise applications, and business-to-business (B2B) services has spurred the exponential growth of identity information, which is often stored in varied and widely-distributed identity environments.

The challenges of securing such identity data and the environments that depend on the identity data are daunting. Organizations that expand their services through internal development or acquisitions must manage identities across a wide spectrum of identity infrastructures. This expansion requires a careful integration of disparate access management systems, platform-dependent architectures with limited scalability, and ad-hoc security components.

ForgeRock, a leader in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market, provides proven solutions to securing your identity data.

Identity Management (IDM) is the automated provisioning, updating, and de-provisioning of identities over their lifecycles.

Access Management (AM) is the authentication and authorization of identities who desire privileged access to an organization’s resources. AM) encompasses the central auditing of operations performed on the system by customers, employees, and partners. AM) also provides the means to share identity data across different access management systems, legacy implementations, and networks.

Continue reading to learn more about AM and what it can do for your environment.