Identity and Access Management Introduction

This section of the site contains documents about the concepts of identity and access management (IAM) and other related topics.

• Identity Management for Dummies
• Enterprise Identity and Access Management
• Business Benefits of Identity Management
• Identity Governance
• Identity Provisioning
• Identity Management Project
• Role Explosion
• IDM Consistency
• Access Management and Provisioning

Identity Management Best Practice

• Management, Directory, Access

Identity Management Anti-Patterns

Anti-patterns are well known and frequently used practices how to do something wrong. These are the ideas that sound great but they usually lead to a disaster. These ideas are so widely used that it is worth documenting them.

• DIY IDM
• Everything in LDAP
• Universal Provisioning Interface
• IDM Big Bang
• Provisioning Interface Abuse
• SSO First