Glossary

Control to grant or to deny access to a resource.

The act of making an account temporarily or permanently inactive after successive authentication failures.

Defined as part of policies, these verbs indicate what authorized identities can do to resources.

In the context of a policy decision denying access, a hint to the policy enforcement point about remedial action to take that could result in a decision allowing access.

User having privileges only to read and write agent profile configuration information, typically created to delegate agent profile creation to the user installing a web or Java agent.

Entity with read-only access to multiple agent profiles defined in the same realm; allows an agent to read web service profiles.

In general terms, a service exposing protected resources.

Application types act as templates for creating policy applications.

Access control that is based on attributes of a user, such as how old a user is or whether the user is a paying customer.

The act of confirming the identity of a principal.

Positive integer associated with an authentication node, usually used to require success with more stringent authentication measures when requesting resources requiring special protection.

The interval while the user or entity is authenticating to PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud.

The act of determining whether to grant or to deny a user access to a resource.

In OAuth 2.0, issues access tokens to the client after authenticating a resource owner and confirming that the owner authorizes the client to access the protected resource. PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud can play this role in the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework.

Arrangement to federate a principal’s identity automatically based on a common attribute value shared across the principal’s profiles at different providers.

Group of providers, including at least one identity provider, who have agreed to trust each other to participate in a SAML 2.0 provider federation.

In OAuth 2.0, requests protected web resources on behalf of the resource owner given the owner’s authorization. PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud can play this role in the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework.

After a successful OAuth 2.0 grant flow, PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud returns a token to the client.

Sessions for which PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud returns session state to the client after each request, and requires the state to be passed in with the subsequent request.

Defined as part of policies, these determine the circumstances under which a policy applies.

LDAP directory service holding PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud configuration data.

PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud capability allowing single sign-on across different DNS domains.

After a successful OAuth 2.0 grant flow, PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud returns a reference to the token to the client, rather than the token itself.

Sessions that reside in the Core Token Service’s token store. Server-side sessions might also be cached in memory.

Granting users administrative privileges with PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud.

Decision that defines which resource names can and cannot be accessed for a given identity in the context of a particular application, which actions are allowed and which are denied, and any related advice and attributes.

Federation configuration information specific to PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud.

Standard, XML-based access control policy language, including a processing model for making authorization decisions based on policies.

Standardized means for aggregating identities, sharing authentication and authorization data information between trusted providers, and allowing principals to access services across different providers without authenticating repeatedly.

Set of data that uniquely describes a person or a thing such as a device or an application.

Linking of a principal’s identity across multiple providers.

Entity that produces assertions about a principal (such as how and when a principal authenticated, or that the principal’s profile has a specified attribute value).

Data store holding user profiles and group information.

Java web application installed in a web container that acts as a policy enforcement point, filtering requests to other applications in the container with policies based on application resource URLs.

Federation configuration information for a provider.

Set of rules that define who is granted access to a protected resource when, how, and under what conditions.

Java, web, or custom agent that intercepts requests for resources, directs principals to PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud for authentication, and enforces policy decisions from PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud.

Entity that manages and stores policy definitions.

Entity that evaluates access rights and then issues authorization decisions.

Entity that intercepts a request for a resource and then enforces policy decisions from a PDP.

Entity that provides extra information, such as user profile attributes that a PDP needs in order to make a decision.

Represents an entity that has been authenticated (such as a user, a device, or an application), and thus is distinguished from other entities.

In the context of delegated administration, a set of administrative tasks that can be performed by specified identities in a given realm.

Agreement among providers to participate in a circle of trust.

PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud unit for organizing configuration and identity information.

Something a user can access over the network such as a web page.

In OAuth 2.0, entity who can authorize access to protected web resources, such as an end user.

In OAuth 2.0, server hosting protected web resources, capable of handling access tokens to respond to requests for such resources.

Defined as part of policies, these PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud return additional information in the form of "attributes" with the response to a policy decision.

Access control that is based on whether a user has been granted a set of permissions (a role).

Standard, XML-based language for exchanging authentication and authorization data between identity providers and service providers.

Entity that consumes assertions about a principal (and provides a service that the principal is trying to access).

The interval that starts after the user has authenticated and ends when the user logs out, or when their session is terminated. For browser-based clients, PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud manages user sessions across one or more applications by setting a session cookie.

Unique identifier issued by PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud after successful authentication.

Capability allowing a principal to end a session once, thereby ending her session across multiple applications.

Capability allowing a principal to authenticate once and gain access to multiple applications without authenticating again.

Standard federation configuration information that you can share with other access management software.

Stateless services do not store any data locally to the service.

Entity that requests access to a resource.

Native library installed in a web server that acts as a policy enforcement point with policies based on web page URLs.