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Identity and access management
From the course: Introduction to IT Architecture
Identity and access management
- [Instructor] Identity and access management is a combination of identity management and access controls which will facilitate resource availability and prevent undesirable exposure to your organization's data. Now, there are three general high-level steps to identity and access management, and they are identifying the user, authenticating that user and authorizing access to the appropriate resources for that user. So let's talk about these. First let's talk about identifying the user, right? So this is just, we want to know who it is that is attempting to come into our infrastructure. We can identify in four general ways. It would either based upon something that the user knows, so an example would be like the fact that they know their password. Could be something that they have, so an example would be like an access token or like an RSA ID which is a little device that has a rotating set of codes and they would…
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