identiteedihaldust

Identiteedihaldust is the practice of managing digital identities and their access to resources across organizational boundaries, systems, and applications. Commonly referred to in English as identity and access management (IAM), identiteedihaldust covers the processes, policies, and technologies used to create, maintain, and terminate user identities and to control their authentication and authorization.

Key functions include identity lifecycle management (provisioning and deprovisioning, role management, and identity synchronization), authentication methods (passwords, MFA, biometrics), authorization (access control, permissions, and policy enforcement), and access governance (auditing, reviews, and compliance).

Core techniques include single sign-on, identity federation, and central directory services. Standards and protocols commonly used are SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth, SCIM, LDAP, Kerberos, and X.509 certificates. Cloud-based offerings include IDaaS and CIAM for customer identities.

Use cases span enterprise IT, cloud deployments, and public-facing applications. Identity management supports regulatory compliance, data protection, secure collaboration, and improved user experience through seamless authentication and least-privilege access.

Security and governance considerations include data privacy, especially under GDPR and other regimes, risk-based access control, regular audits, strong authentication, and encryption. Trends include passwordless authentication, biometrics, zero-trust architectures, and expanded identity analytics.

Historically, identiteedihaldust evolved from directory services and centralized authentication in on-premises networks to modern IAM solutions that span cloud and on-premises environments, with increasing emphasis on federation, CIAM, and governance.