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title: About the SCIM service
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# About the SCIM service

PingAuthorize Server's built-in System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) service provides a REST API for data that is stored in one or more external datastores, based on the [SCIM 2.0 standard](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7644).

For information about the SCIM service, see the following topics:

* [SCIM API request and response flow](paz_scim_request_response_flow.html)

* [SCIM configuration basics](paz_scim_config_basics.html)

* [SCIM endpoints](paz_scim_endpoints.html)

* [SCIM authentication](paz_scim_authentication.html)

* [SCIM policy requests](paz_scim_policy_requests.html)

* [Lookthrough limit for SCIM searches](paz_lookthrough_limit.html)

* [Disabling the SCIM REST API](paz_disable_scim_rest_api.html)